bodied

[ bod-eed ]

/ ˈbɒd id /

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adjective

having a body of a specific kind (used in combination): a flat-bodied fish; a wide-bodied car.

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Origin of bodied

body + -ed³

Words nearby bodied

Bodhi Tree, bodhran, bodice, bodice ripper, Bo Diddley beat, bodied, bodiless, bodily, boding, bodkin, Bodleian

How to use bodied in a sentence

Some of the Mazon Creek animals, such as the bizarre “Tully Monster,” are entirely soft-bodied.
Ancient Brains: Inside the Extraordinary Preservation of a 310-Million-Year-Old Nervous System|John Paterson|July 30, 2021|Singularity Hub
Vespa hornets are “very large-bodied and obvious, so people will see them,” says entomologist Lynn Kimsey of the University of California, Davis, one of the authors of the 2020 hornet overview.
Focusing on Asian giant hornets distorts the view of invasive species|Susan Milius|July 1, 2021|Science News
The result is a bold and full-bodied whiskey that Montgomery says is ideal for an old-fashioned.
Stillhouse Is the Official Spirit of Adventure|Outside Editors|May 31, 2021|Outside Online
And, as Severson points out, it makes bigger-bodied people less likely to seek out health care, too.
Fat-Shaming People Won’t Improve Their Health|Christine Byrne|May 26, 2021|Outside Online

The tens of thousands of individual bones and teeth come from animals that range from barrel-bodied rhinos to tiny songbirds, rodents, lizards and snakes.
Rhinos, camels and bone-crushing dogs once roamed Nebraska|Alison Pearce Stevens|May 13, 2021|Science News For Students
The escort site Cowboys4Angels peddles chiseled, hot-bodied men and their smoldering model looks to women willing to pay.
Career-Minded Women Turn to Male Escorts For No-Strings Fun and (Maybe) Sex|Aurora Snow|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Why they are so important for physically and cognitively disabled kids (and their able bodied peers).
Magical Gardens for the Blind, Deaf, and Disabled|Elizabeth Picciuto|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The (very wealthy) de la Renta women wore bold colors, flared sleeves, full-bodied skirts and trousers.
Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, American Great, Dead at 82|Tim Teeman|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The word—rich, expensive, full-bodied—represents more than just a flavor in Colombia.
Will Coffee Rust Hurt Starbucks?|Nina Strochlic|June 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Able-bodied people rarely notice the barriers that riddle the world which keep the disabled from participating in society.
#YesAllWomen Should Have the Church On Their Side|Gene Robinson|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was a big-bodied, big-hearted, ruddy-faced, farmerlike man of fifty or so; and the service was proud of him.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb
The wonder is that between sword and halter there was any able-bodied man left in Munster.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3)|Richard Bagwell
As in the Report itself, no definition is given in the Act of what was meant by "able-bodied persons."
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb
We can find no explanation of, or reason for, the entire absence of any provision for independent women who were able-bodied.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb

British Dictionary definitions for bodied

-bodied

adjective

(in combination) having a body or bodies as specifiedable-bodied; long-bodied; many-bodied

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