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Embody Common

Embody has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

represent in bodily form

"He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"

"The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

2

represent, as of a character on stage

"Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

3

represent or express something abstract in tangible form

"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

4

To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

Example Sentences
"He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system" verb
"The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" verb
"Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" verb
"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
be typify represent
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
body exemplify
Rhyming Words
ody body dody kody cody tody fody jody mody woody roody doody hoody grody brody goody foody moody parody bloody
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