To embody a role is to fill it completely. If a high schooler seems to embody the character of Macbeth, his performance might make the audience forget they're watching a dorky 15 year old with braces.
To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate;
Verb
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
Verb
represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
Verb
represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
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.
v. i.
To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to
coalesce.
Embody
Devils embodied and disembodied.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
Embody
Firmly to embody against this court party.
To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate;
To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Usage Examples
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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