Thesaurus: embody

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1. v. t. To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.
2. v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
3. v. represent in bodily form
4. v. represent, as of a character on stage
5. v. represent or express something abstract in tangible form
6. To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.
7. To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into abody, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one'sideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.]Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.South.
8. v:100 v. represent, as of a character on stage v. represent or express something abstract in tangible form