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embodied
[ em-bod-eed ]
adjective
- expressed, personified, or exemplified in concrete form:
The one-day intensive workshop is designed to shift peacemaking from words and theory to costly, embodied reality.
- having or provided with a body; incarnate or corporeal:
In most folklore, ghosts seem to be bound by many of the same physical laws that bind embodied beings.
- Environmental Science. relating to or being the energy involved or required in the production, maintenance, or use of a particular concrete object, and therefore thought of as part of the object:
You can increase the embodied efficiency of a new house by building it in an already dense neighborhood, taking advantage of existing infrastructure and shorter distances.
- (of writing) portraying the details of bodily experience as they are lived or relived by the writer so as to evoke them sympathetically in the reader:
Acting out your characters is something I recommend as part of the enlivening practice of embodied writing.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of embody ( def ).
Other Word Forms
- ɱ-·ǻ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of embodied1
Example Sentences
“We finally embodied the spirit and the demeanor of our head coach. That’s just how he is,” James told The Times.
He was truly an extraordinary leader and a role model to the world that embodied a deep faith and commitment to embrace the dignity of the human person.
Tragedy’s chorus typically represented a collective perspective, that of elders or ordinary citizens whose voices embodied a community’s hopes and anxieties.
Indeed this weekend's broad range of exemptions are in and of themselves an astonishing U-turn on the principle embodied in the notorious tariff chart held up by Trump in the Rose Garden.
The truth is, no one knows anything about any activity of the time, but people are pointing out the opportunity for sharp practice embodied in the whipsawing tariff policies emitting from the White House.
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