EMBODY


Meaning of EMBODY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ im-ˈbä-dē ]

transitive verb

( 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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.