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1. Possessing or existing in bodily form
   "what seemed embodied melted as breath into the wind"
   - bodied, corporal, corporate [archaic], incarnate

1. Represent in bodily form
   "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"
   - incarnate, body forth, substantiate
    
2. Represent, as of a character on stage
   "Derek Jacobi embodied Hamlet"
   - be, personify
    
3. Represent or express something abstract in tangible form
   "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

See also: corporeal, embodiment, material

Type of: be, represent, stand for, symbol [archaic], symbolise [Brit], symbolize, typify

Encyclopedia: Embodied