Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify:
Русский
By meaning 1
represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify:

Examples

32 sentences
  1. How did you embody your idea?

  2. He wants to embody his ideal.

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  3. Sami embodied peacefulness and loving kindness.

Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

    As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

    verkörpern

    воплоща́тьvoploščátʹ, воплоти́тьvoplotítʹ, олицетворя́тьolicetvorjátʹ

    утілюватиutiljuvaty, втілюватиvtiljuvaty, утілитиutilyty

  2. (transitive)To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.

    verkörpern

    олицетворя́тьolicetvorjátʹ

  3. (transitive)To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.

    The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

    The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

  4. (intransitive)To unite in a body or mass.

More definitions
  • represent in bodily form
  • represent, as of a character on stage
  • represent or express something abstract in tangible form

Forms

embodies, embodying, embodied, embodied

regular · Lesson

Base formembody · to embody
3rd person singularembodies
Present participleembodying
Past simpleembodied
Past participleembodied

Tenses

embody · embodied · will embody · have embodied

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyembody
he, she, itembodies

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave embodied
he, she, ithas embodied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill embody

Past simpleLesson

all personsembodied

Synonyms

17 synonyms
To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole:embraceB2encompassC2enfold
To unite in a body or mass:fuseC1
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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