Embody

Definition: Embody

Embody

Verb

1. Represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system".

2. Represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet".

3. Represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "embody" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Synonyms: Embody

Class

Include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose; (circumscribe); embody, encircle.

Combination

Verb: combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.

Composition

Include; (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.

Junction

Verb: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody; roll into one.

Whole

Verb: form a whole, integrate, embody, amass; aggregate; (assemble); amount to, come to.

Crosswords: Embody

Books

• Embody the Word: Being a Temple of the Holy Spirit (reference)

• Gifts of Love: Crafts and Presents That Embody the Spirit of Giving (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Embody (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Poland further accepts and agrees to embody in a Treaty with the said Powers such provisions as they may deem necessary to protect freedom of transit and equitable treatment of the commerce of other nations. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Taiwan

Fine arts, folk traditions, and popular culture embody traditional and modern, Asian, and Western motifs. (references)

Democratic Republic of Congo

Traditional religions embody such concepts as monotheism, animism, vitalism, spirit and ancestor worship, witchcraft, and sorcery and vary widely among ethnic groups; none is formalized. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

They criticized the unilateral manner in which the Commission was created and its failure to embody the independence of a foundation or the thoroughgoing implementation of the Accords, including, for example, a national exhumation policy. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

USAID programs promote democratic reform by helping to: 1) develop competitive and fair political processes, including elections; 2) support the emergence of laws and legal institutions that support and embody democratic processes; 3) strengthen local government to make it effective, responsive and accountable to citizens; 4) empower citizens to participate actively in the political and economic life of their communities through non-governmental organizations, through democratically-structured political parties, and independent trade unions; and 5) strengthen independent media. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaans

beliggaam. (various references)

Albanian

shpreh (bid, breathe, clothe, couch, express, express oneself, extend, formulate, give voice to, import, outspeak, phrase, profess, put, put forward, say, speak, utter), personifikoj (incarnate, personalize, personate, personify), mishëroj (epitomize, exteriorize, externalize, incarnate, objectify, personate, personify), materializoj (reify). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضمن (assure, avouch, enclose, ensure, farm out, guarantee, inclose, include, inside, insure, secure, sponsor, vouch, within), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏جسد (body, bone, bulk, corpus, externalize, frame, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, model, mold, mould, personate, personify, reify, shape, substantiate), ‏إنتظم (be organized, dress, fall in, parade, register), ‏إشتمل (comprehend, comprise, contain, embrace, enclose, have, inclose, include, take in), ‏شمل (comprehend, comprise, cover, embrace, encompass, enfold, include, included, involve, unity), ‏شخص (baby, bloke, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit, stick), ‏دمج (amalgamate, amalgamation, blend, combination, combine, conjunction, consolidate, dovetailing, fuse, fuze, incorporation, integrate, integration, interlace, merge). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), формирам (activate, form, make, mould), въплъщавам (externalize, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, personify), включвам в себе си (implicate), осъществявам (accomplish, achieve, carry into effect, carry through, fulfil, fulfill, implement, incarnate, instrument, materialize, put into effect, realize), олицетворявам (impersonate, personalize, personate, personify), изобразявам (depict, depicture, design, feature, figure, image, limn, picture, represent, typify). (various references)

Chinese 

包含 (contain, include), 使具�"化 , 实现 (Embodied, Embodying, fruition, materialise, materialize, Materialized, Materializing). (various references)

Czech

ztìlesòovat (epitomize, impersonate, typify), zahrnovat (bombard, comprehend, comprise, contain, embrace, encompass, envisage, imply, subsume), vyjádřit (couch, express, formulate, give, give voice to, profess, put, state, utter, voice). (various references)

Dutch

belichamen. (various references)

Esperanto

enkorpigi, enkarnigi, korpigi. (various references)

Farsi 

متضمن بودن (Entail, Include, Presuppose), مجسم کردن (Character, Depict, Epitomize, Figure, Image, Incarnate, Portray), دربرداشتن (Bear, Comport, Comprise, Contain, Encircle, Entail, Include, Presuppose). (various references)

Finnish

ruumiillistaa (incarnate), olennoida (impersonate, personify). (various references)

French

résumer, personnifier, inclure, incarner, faire intégrer, donner forme, concrétiser, comprendre (embrace). (various references)

German

verkörpern (epitomize, impersonate, incarnate, personalize, personify, portray, to embody, to incarnate, to personify, to typify, typify). (various references)

Greek 

συσσωματώνω (to cake, to lump together, to lump up), ενσωματώνω (embed, incorporate). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"מחיש (demonstrate, illusory, make perceptible, reify), ל�'לם (impersonate, personify). (various references)

Hungarian

megtestesít (impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, personalize, personify, reify, to embody, to incarnate, to incorporate, to personalize, to personify), kifejez (denote, express, phrase, reflect, signify, to denote, to express, to phrase, to reflect, to register, to represent, to signify, to state, to voice, voice). (various references)

Indonesian

mewujudkan (actualize, manifest, personify), menjelma (incarnate, personify, transfigure). (various references)

Italian

personificare (epitomize, personify), incorporare (annex, incorporate, integrate, merge), includere (comprehend, comprise, enclose, engrain, inclose, include, incorporate), incarnare (become incarnate, epitomise, epitomize, grow in, incarnate), impersonare (epitomise, epitomize, impersonate, personate, personify, symbolyze, typify). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

顕われる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 表れる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 表われる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 現れる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize), 現われる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あらわれる (to appear, to become visible, to come in sight, to come out, to embody, to express oneself, to materialize). (various references)

Korean 

구현하십시�". (various references)

Manx

cur stiagh (bring home, buy in, drop, embrace, enclose, harvest, house, input, insert, insertion, install, installation, interject, interruption, intervention, lay up, pass, put in, return). (various references)

Norwegian

legemliggjøre (incarnate). (various references)

Pig Latin

embodyay.(various references)

Polish

wcielić. (various references)

Portuguese

encarnar (incarnate, personify), incorporar (incorporate), incluir (add, add in, comprise, contain, count, embrace, enclose, inclose, include, including, number, take in, to include). (various references)

Romanian

personifica (impersonify, personalize, personate, personify, typify), cuprinde în sine, întruchipa (body forth, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, objectify, personify, represent, typify), încorpora, încarna. (various references)

Russian 

содержать (contain, keep, maintain, store, subsist, support), включать (add in, comprehend, comprise, embodied, embrace, gear, geared, include, including, insert, install, involve, key on, power on, subsume, switch in, take in, turn on), воплощать (exteriorize, externalize, impersonate, incarnate, objectify, personalize, personify), олицетворять (impersonate, personalize, personify), заключать в себе (comprise, encompass, hold, implicate, imply, presuppose). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uteloviti (personalize), oteloviti. (various references)

Spanish

encarnar (blood, incarnadine, incarnate). (various references)

Swedish

vara ett uttryck för, innesluta (embed, embosom, encase, encircle, enclose, envelop, imbed, incase, inclose, lock, seal, shut in, wreathe), inkarnera, införliva (annex, incorporate), ge konkret form åt, förkroppsliga (incarnate, personify, substantiate). (various references)

Turkish

somutlaştırmak (concrete, concretize, incarnate, objectify, reify), ihtiva etmek (comprehend, comprise, contain), içermek (comprise, contain, cover, encapsulate, enclose, implicate, imply, incapsulate, inclose, include, number, span, store, subsume), cisimleştirmek (materialize, reify), bir bütün halinde toplamak, belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, emit, enumerate, evidence, exude, feature, import, indicate, manifest, point out, predicate, purport, remark, represent, show, sign, signify, specify, state, ventilate). (various references)

Ukrainian

втілювати в життя, включати (add in, comprehend, comprise, cut in, introduce, put, take in), об'�"днувати (amalgamate, band, combine, consolidate, incorporate, rally, solder, unify, unionize), здійснювати (actualize, bring to pass, compass, effect, effectuate, execute, exercise, implement, make, materialize, perpetrate, practise, put into practice, realize, wage), бути символом. (various references)

Welsh

ymgorffori, corffori (incorporate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "embody": embodying. (additional references)

Words ending with "embody": coembody, disembody, reembody. (additional references)

Words containing "embody": coembodying, disembodying, reembodying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Embody" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Embo, embodie, Embu, enboy, fembot, umbudi, unbloody. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: demob.

-2 letters: bode, body, demo, demy, doby, dome, emyd, mode, obey.

-3 letters: bed, bey, bod, boy, bye, deb, dey, doe, dom, dye, med, mob, mod, obe, ode, yob, yod, yom.

-4 letters: be, bo, by, de, do, ed, em, me, mo, my, od, oe, om, oy, ye, yo.

+2 letters: coembody, corymbed, embryoid, homebody, reembody, somebody, symboled.

+3 letters: disembody, embodying, embryoids, molybdate, symbolled.

+4 letters: embroidery, molybdates, molybdenum, symbolised, symbolized.

+5 letters: coembodying, commendably, currycombed, embryonated, honeycombed, molybdenite, molybdenums, reembodying, subemployed.