embody

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   

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2. To represent in bodily or material form:

• "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodied the new" Richard Hofstadter.
  

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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.