tr.v., -bod·ied, -bod·y·ing, -bod·ies.
- To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
- To represent in bodily or material form: "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodied the new" (Richard Hofstadter).
- To make part of a system or whole; incorporate: laws that embody a people's values.
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