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. Eva Lys:

   Tennis professionals don't embody a country in the same way that national teams do, so I think it's right to ban Russian teams to send a crystal clear message. And I think it's good that you take out flags or the reference to Russia in tennis, but let the individual professionals play.

2. 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.

3. Ayanna Pressley:

   The remarks from the occupant of our White House --I will always refer to him as the occupant as he is only occupying space, and does not embody the grace, the empathy, the compassion, the integrity that that office requires and that the American people deserve.

4. Norman Douglas:

   What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

5. 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.