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Meanings of embody in English

Portuguese
representar
Spanish
encarnar

Represent in bodily form.

representar
Portuguese
representar
Catalan
caracteritzar
Spanish
encarnar

Represent, as of a character on stage.

representar
Usage of embody in English
1
Only in this way can we better embody fair trade, Li said.
Reuters
2
They embody First World Problems long before that phrase entered common parlance.
The Irish Times
3
He is at his best when thus able to embody the insubstantial.
The Guardian
4
Dinosaurs, he argues, embody a way of asking questions about the world.
Wired
5
The approaches embody some of science's great virtues: foresight, patience and cleverness.
Wired
6
But time and again music and dance embody the show's central idea.
The Guardian
7
The tribes in The Bone Clocks embody different approaches to such questions.
The Guardian
8
That is the essential idea my New Republic would personify and embody.
Mankind in the Making
9
The beggars seem to embody all the trade and enterprise of Pisa.
Pictures from Italy
10
It's all about exploring the way gamers embody the character on screen.
Wired
11
Shakespeare means him to embody the type of the perfect Italian gentleman.
Literary Lapses
12
They want their bands to embody their own anxieties and reduced expectations.
The Guardian
13
Leaders have to embody modernity, to represent who we think we are.
The Guardian
14
Just pick an emotion, and you'd find the crime to embody it.
The king of lies
15
All these scenarios embody the various forms of self-constitution through practical activity.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
16
You embody for me all the things my puritan grandmothers stood for.
Lydia of the Pines
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Translations for embody
Embody through the time
Embody across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common