What does Embody mean?

Definitions for Embody
ɛmˈbɒd iem·body

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiateverb

    represent in bodily form

    "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

  2. embody, be, personifyverb

    represent, as of a character on stage

    "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

  3. embodyverb

    represent or express something abstract in tangible form

    "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

Wiktionary

  1. embodyverb

    To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify

    As the car salesperson approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

  2. embodyverb

    To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole

ChatGPT

  1. embody

    To embody means to represent, generally in a physical form, an idea, quality, or concept. It can also refer to expressing, personifying, or exemplifying an idea or a principle. Additionally, it can mean including or containing something as a constituent part.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Embodyverb

    to form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise

  2. Embodyverb

    to unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Embody

    em-bod′i, Imbody, im-, v.t. to form into a body: to make corporeal: to make tangible: to express (an idea in words): to organise.—v.i. to unite in a body or mass.—p.adj. Embod′ied.—n. Embod′iment, act of embodying: state of being embodied: that in which something is embodied. [Em, in, and body.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. embody

    To form or collect into a body or united mass; as, to embody troops.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EMBODY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Embody is ranked #138304 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Embody surname appeared 121 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Embody.

    88.4% or 107 total occurrences were White.
    9.9% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Embody' in Verbs Frequency: #982

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Embody in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Embody in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Embody in a Sentence

  1. June Jordan:

    To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

  2. President Michael Schill:

    I do not believe any of our coaches, administrators, or other university personnel acted wrongfully, nor do I believe that any one of them failed to live up to the high moral standards that we value and that they embody in their work every day.

  3. Benjamin W. Decker:

    The goal of Meditations on Christ is to deepen our relationship with the Spirit of Jesus Christ and to greater embody His likeness.

  4. Ayanna Pressley:

    The remarks from the occupant of our White House --I will always refer to him as the occupant as he is only occupying space, and does not embody the grace, the empathy, the compassion, the integrity that that office requires and that the American people deserve.

  5. Gal Gadot:

    I think mainly Zack had a very clear idea of the Wonder Woman he wanted to bring to the big screen, and I had to embody everything he wanted me to be, give my own notes, my own input, and just go for it, for me, Wonder Woman is just such an amazing character: She's all about love and justice and truth and compassion and equality, and I didn't want her to be too polished. I didn't want her to be too perfect. I wanted people, men and women, to be inspired by her and to be able to relate to her, and I wanted to make her muddier, dirtier, to give her some edge, give her some attitude, and I think we were able to do it.

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