Overview of verb embody

The verb embody has 3 senses

• incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate -- (represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist")


• embody, be, personify -- (represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet")


• embody -- (represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period")

Overview of adj embodied

The adj embodied has 1 sense

• bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate -- (possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term")