1. VERB
To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality.
- Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s.
- That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family.
- = represent
...... Cobuild
2. To represent in bodily or material form:
- "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodied the new" Richard Hofstadter.
... Am-Heritage
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(Cobuild) 2. VERB
If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first.
- The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution.
- UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.
(Am-H) 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
3. To make part of a system or whole; incorporate: laws that embody a people's values.
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