embodied

[em-bod-eed]

adjective

1. expressed, personified, or exemplified in concrete form.

   The one-day intensive workshop is designed to shift peacemaking from words and theory to costly, embodied reality.

2. having or provided with a body; incarnate or corporeal.

   In most folklore, ghosts seem to be bound by many of the same physical laws that bind embodied beings.

3. Environmental Science.,  relating to or being the energy involved or required in the production, maintenance, or use of a particular concrete object, and therefore thought of as part of the object.

   You can increase the embodied efficiency of a new house by building it in an already dense neighborhood, taking advantage of existing infrastructure and shorter distances.

4. (of writing) portraying the details of bodily experience as they are lived or relived by the writer so as to evoke them sympathetically in the reader.

   Acting out your characters is something I recommend as part of the enlivening practice of embodied writing.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of embody.

Other Word Forms

• well-embodied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of embodied¹

embody ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Elsewhere, it was a truly cinematic evening as the Strictly contestants embodied their characters for movie week.

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From Reds and Manhattan to Baby Boom, Father of the Bride and The First Wives Club, she embodied complex characters who balanced wit and vulnerability.

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Beijing could elevate embodied intelligence to a core strategic track supporting China’s manufacturing powerhouse and digital nation initiatives in the next five-year plan, the analyst adds.

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Darian Dandridge, an Image contributor and Long Beach native, says the style on the runway and during the night as a whole embodied “history, memory and the desire to dig deeper.”

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One answer is embodied by the nearly 1 million people who choose to become naturalized Americans each year.

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