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  • bodied
    bodied
    adjective
    having a body of a specific kind (used in combination).
  • -bodied
    -bodied
    adjective
    (in combination) having a body or bodies as specified

bodied

American  
[bod-eed] / ˈbɒd id /

adjective

  1. having a body of a specific kind (used in combination).

    a flat-bodied fish; a wide-bodied car.


-bodied British  

adjective

  1. (in combination) having a body or bodies as specified

    able-bodied

    long-bodied

    many-bodied

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of bodied

body + -ed 3

Example Sentences

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South Korea is still technically at war with North Korea, with all able bodied men between expected to fulfil the country's mandatory conscription requirements.

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But there has also been some debate about when regional endothermy evolved, and whether extinct species like the megalodon was warm bodied.

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"Since there are no paper filters involved, French press brews a cup which retains all of the coffee's natural oils, resulting in a very full bodied and rich cup."

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WAITER: Our chianti is quite good, medium bodied with just a hint of cherry HOPPER: Great!

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2022

Friday afternoon, and from right here I could see three miles of land that hadn't even been broken, and every able bodied man in the county in town at that show.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

A movement in the trees behind Ronan made Hagrid raise his bow again, but it was only a second centaur, black-haired and -bodied and wilder-looking than Ronan.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

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