[ UK /ɛmbˈɒdi/ ]
[ US /ɪmˈbɑdi/ ]
VERB
  1. represent in bodily form
    He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
    The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist
  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
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How To Use embody In A Sentence

  • Galilee with theriomorphic polytheism, that is, the tendency to embody the qualities of divinity in animal forms. The Ancient East
  • What values does he embody? Grayness grayness that suggests the color of a land and a culture, the color of stone, of peasant clothes.
  • According to a recently opened exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion," the muse lives on as the fashion model who inspires masses of women to dress in ways that capture the spirit of the age. Where Have All the Muses Gone?
  • No concept can allow us to rise so far: yet the aesthetic experience, which involves a perpetual striving to pass beyond the limits of our point of view, seems to embody what cannot be thought.
  • They embody different ideas about how to live. Times, Sunday Times
  • It emphasized how to embody the beauty of music in poster color language.
  • The broad Bragg peak arises from a cholesterol monolayer embodying poorly ordered two-dimensional crystalline domains, each containing ~ 200 molecules in a proposed trigonal arrangement.
  • Liu's non-figurative paintings embody an extreme intensity which has become a trademark style of this talented painter.
  • So all three of these great teachers of the Church are represented in this text, to which each of them might seem to have contributed a word embodying his characteristic type of doctrine. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
  • Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina (wife of the emperor Trajan) were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas (family feeling).
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