embody

Verb

Verb Forms: embodied, embodying, embodies

• To give a tangible or visible form to an idea or quality.
• represent in bodily form
• represent, as of a character on stage
• represent or express something abstract in tangible form
• 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.
• To unite in a body or mass.

Examples

• As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
• Her final play, a triple-word score, seemed to embody all her strategic brilliance.
• The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
• The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

Synonyms

be, body forth, incarnate, personify, substantiate, actualize, coalesce, concretize, effigiate, embrace, encompass, enfold, fuse, integrate, materialize, merge, objectify, realize, reify, thingify