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How to pronounce embody in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms be, personify
Type of symbolise, represent, typify, stand for, symbolize
Has types body, exemplify, personify, represent
Type Words
Synonyms body forth, incarnate, substantiate
Type of be
Derivation embodiment
Type Words
Type of represent
Derivation embodiment

Examples of embody

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The works embody the hopes and aspirations of the people who made them, he said.
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They embody only a relationship within the language at a specific point in time.
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His sister Anna and Dr. Tenma, are his counter, and embody love and forgiveness.
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Sadly, even as Music and Lyrics argues this point, it utterly fails to embody it.
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How should a company devise new meanings and create the designs to embody them?
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The idea is so bad it manages to embody most of what's wrong with politics today.
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As sculptures, they embody the ebullient and irreverent improvisation of the day.
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Run by co-operatives of local growers, the auctions embody logistical virtuosity.
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They embody the greatness of our country of which we are all privileged to share.
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More examples
  • Incarnate: 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"
  • (embodied) bodied: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
  • To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify; To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
  • (1. (Conceptual) Embodied) Conceptual embodiment builds on human perceptions and actions developing mental images that are verbalized in increasingly sophisticated ways and become perfect mental entities in our imagination.
  • (Embodied) cultural capital consists of both the consciously acquired and the passively "inherited" properties of one's self (with "inherit[ance]" here used not in the genetic sense but in the sense of receipt over time, usually from the family through socialization, of culture and traditions). ...
  • To make concrete by expression in perceptible form as in words, acts, institutions, or works of art.