Definitions for embody

embody em·bod·y

Spelling: [em-bod-ee]
IPA: /ɛmˈbɒd i/

Embody is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in embody (bdemoy).

Definitions for embody

verb (used with object)

  1. to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exemplify in concrete form:
  2. to provide with a body; incarnate; make corporeal:
  3. to collect into or include in a body; organize; incorporate.
  4. to embrace or comprise.

Origin of embody

First recorded in 1540-50; em-1 + body

Examples for embody

When it came to casting Escobar, Di Stefano had to find a strong actor who could embody the brutality of the late kingpin.

Long before rehearsals began, Sharp started to embody Christopher.

Endeavor to embody in the laws of the community the spirit of equity and progress.

Yet the English have contrived to embody all these in one word, and that word my name!'

We may read this cable wrong but it seems to us to embody a topsy-turvy tactic!

It was oh-so subtle, but he began to embody his grandfather and his father.

At last in desperation you embody it in a poem, an essay, a story.

We can never know the degree to which these women actively choose to embody this ideal, or how “real” it may or may not be.

I had for some time thought about it, but had not attempted to embody the conception in a drawing.

Without the tension between good and evil—and without protagonists to embody that moral polarity—a lesser show would go slack.

Word Value for embody
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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