v.
Pronunciation: im- ' bä-d ē
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: em · bod · ied ; em · body · ing
Date: circa 1548
1 : to give a body to (a spirit) : INCARNATE
2 a : to deprive of spirituality b : to make concrete and perceptible
3 : to cause to become a body or part of a body : INCORPORATE
4 : to represent in human or animal form : PERSONIFY <men who greatly embodied the idealism of American life ― A. M. Schlesinger b 1917>
– em · bodi · er noun