1. (

• incarnate ,
• body_forth ,
• embody ,
• substantiate

) represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" ;

2. (

• embody ,
• be ,
• personify

) represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" ;

3. (

• embody ,

) represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period" ;

1. (

• bodied ,
• corporal ,
• corporate ,
• embodied ,
• incarnate

) possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" ;