embody
Origin of embody
Related Words for embody
exemplify, incorporate, exhibit, express, epitomize, manifest, typify, personify, mirror, demonstrate, symbolize, realize, illustrate, blend, codify, comprehend, involve, embrace, contain, combineExamples from the Web for embody
Contemporary Examples of embody
Long before rehearsals began, Sharp started to embody Christopher.
When it came to casting Escobar, Di Stefano had to find a strong actor who could embody the brutality of the late kingpin.
It was oh-so subtle, but he began to embody his grandfather and his father.
Native American Basketball Team in Wyoming Have Hoop Dreams Of Their OwnRobert Silverman
August 31, 2014
We can never know the degree to which these women actively choose to embody this ideal, or how “real” it may or may not be.
Without the tension between good and evil—and without protagonists to embody that moral polarity—a lesser show would go slack.
Game of Thrones’ ‘The Lion and the Rose’: Joffrey’s Demented, Shocking Royal WeddingAndrew Romano
April 14, 2014
Historical Examples of embody
At last in desperation you embody it in a poem, an essay, a story.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
I had for some time thought about it, but had not attempted to embody the conception in a drawing.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
Yet the English have contrived to embody all these in one word, and that word my name!'
Lord KilgobbinCharles Lever
Endeavor to embody in the laws of the community the spirit of equity and progress.
The Mistakes of JesusWilliam Floyd
We may read this cable wrong but it seems to us to embody a topsy-turvy tactic!
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2Ian Hamilton
embody
- to give a tangible, bodily, or concrete form to (an abstract concept)
- to be an example of or express (an idea, principle, etc), esp in actionhis gentleness embodies a Christian ideal
- (often foll by in) to collect or unite in a comprehensive whole, system, etc; comprise; includeall the different essays were embodied in one long article
- to invest (a spiritual entity) with a body or with bodily form; render incarnate