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embodied

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[em-bod-eed] / ɛmˈbɒd id /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of embodied

embody ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )

Example Sentences

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Faraday Future says it has a leg up on the competition in the world of embodied AI because its bots are ready for delivery.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Wallace, a New Yorker, was Shakur's big rival and the two rappers embodied the East Coast - West Coast feud that dominated 1990s hip-hop.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

But as the Lord of Darkness, the massively built ruler of the underworld in Ridley Scott’s underappreciated fantasy, Curry embodied a paradox.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

His own laboratory has begun exploring this direction by drawing on ideas from embodied cognition and ecological psychology.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Misallying couples snapped off the future, which was to be embodied in true offspring.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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