embody

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

The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

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.

to express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form
{f} manifest or personify in concrete form; incarnate; incorporate, unite into one body
If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first. The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes
represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period
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
To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality. Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family. = represent
To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce
represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period
represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
embodied
Simple past tense and past participle of embody
embodied
{s} manifested or personified in concrete form; incarnate; incorporated, united into one body
embodied
past of embody
embodied
expressed by; "the idea embodied in the text"
embodied
expressed by; "the idea embodied in the text
embodied
possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
embodied
personalized
embodies
third-person singular of embody
embodying
present participle of embody
embody
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