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embody
/ɪmˈbɑdi/
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What does embody mean?
verb
- To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
- To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.
- To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.
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verb
- To unite in a body or mass.
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IPA pronunciation
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You must hold the image before the mind's eye, using your imagination to embody to yourself every act, incident and appearance.
The Texas myth as imagined by non-Texans is coming to embody oil millionaires in airplanes instead of horsemen with six-shooters and rifles.
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It was at this time that he engaged Mr. Clement as draughtsman and mechanic to embody his ideas in a working machine.
I would not, if I could, here or to-day, embody a record of my later years of unspeakable misery, and unpardonable crime.
Having done this at once, for fear of accident, I obtained her ladyship’s permission to embody her recent instructions in a second Will.