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")