EMBODY


Meaning of EMBODY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmbɒdi ]

( embodies, embodying, embodied)

1.

To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality.

Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s...

That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family.

= represent

VERB : V n , be V-ed in/by n

2.

If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first.

The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution...

UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.

VERB : be V-ed in/by n , V n

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