Synonyms for embody
ɛmˈbɒd iem·body

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1. embody

   Synonyms:
   express, methodize, systematize, codify, incorporate, aggregate, integrate, compact, introduce, enlist, combine

   Antonyms:
   eliminate, segregate, analyze, dissipate, disintegrate, dismember, colliquats, disband, disembody

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1. incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiateverb

   represent in bodily form

   "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

   Synonyms:
   body forth, substantiate, sustain, realise, affirm, actualise, actualize, support, personify, corroborate, confirm, be, realize, incarnate

2. embody, be, personifyverb

   represent, as of a character on stage

   "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

   Synonyms:
   personify, exist, live, equal, be, represent, personate, comprise, body, cost, incarnate, substantiate, make up, follow, body forth, constitute

3. embodyverb

   represent or express something abstract in tangible form

   "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

   Synonyms:
   substantiate, body forth, incarnate, personify, be

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1. embodyverb

   Synonyms:
   invest with a body, make corporeal, form into a body

2. embodyverb

   Synonyms:
   incorporate, concentrate, compact, integrate, combine, collect into a whole, draw into one mass

3. embodyverb

   Synonyms:
   comprehend, include, embrace, comprise, contain

4. embodyverb

   Synonyms:
   systematize, methodize, codify

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1. List of paraphrases for "embody":

   incarnate, symbolize, epitomize, reflect, represent

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1. Don DeLillo:

   America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

2. Stephen Breyer:

   What I’m trying to do is to make those whose instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional changes such as forms of court-packing to think long and hard before they embody those changes in law.

3. Jeffrey Sachs:

   Measuring self-reported happiness and achieving well-being should be on every nation's agenda as they begin to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, indeed the goals themselves embody the very idea that human well-being should be nurtured through a holistic approach that combines economic, social and environmental objectives.

4. Maddison Tenney:

   When I saw the angels, to me, it was more than just angels. It was this way to physically embody and refute the claims that God hates gay people.

5. Jeffrey Sachs:

   Indeed the goals themselves embody the very idea that human well-being should be nurtured through a holistic approach that combines economic, social and environmental objectives, rather than taking a narrow approach focused solely on economic growth,we should promote societies that are prosperous, just, and environmentally sustainable.