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bodying

  • present participle of body.

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“I thought they really started bodying us on drives, bumping us on drives,” Willard said.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2023

Morgan controlled an overhead ball by bodying defender Clare Polkinghorne.

From Reuters Apr. 5, 2019

Finally, Pena jumped into the fray, bodying up post players over a half-foot taller.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2017

There is no other singer I can think of who is better or more practiced at bodying existential duress.

From The New Yorker May 5, 2016

That the artist may consciously employ the facts of life, not for the sake of the fact, but to communicate his feeling by thus bodying it forth in concrete symbols, there is explicit testimony.

From The Enjoyment of Art by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge