embodyem‧bod‧y /ɪmˈbɒdi $ ɪmˈbɑːdi/ ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle embodied, present participle embodying, third person singular embodies) [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
She embodies everything I admire in a teacher.2formal to include something: The latest model embodies many new improvements.
Verb TableVERB TABLE
embody
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | embody |
| he, she, it | embodies | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | embodied |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have embodied |
| he, she, it | has embodied | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had embodied |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will embody |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have embodied |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am embodying |
| he, she, it | is embodying | |
| you, we, they | are embodying | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was embodying |
| you, we, they | were embodying | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been embodying |
| he, she, it | has been embodying | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been embodying |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be embodying |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been embodying |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Collocations- Mrs. Miller embodies everything I admire in a teacher.
- The limits on nuclear weapons are embodied in two treaties from the 1970s.
- Gaia embodies the archaic Earth, from its earliest moments, through the times of the hunter-gatherers.
- His centrist, compromising instincts, embodied in the New Democrat covenant, alienated core constituencies while failing to impress opponents.
- In many ways, the poll tax embodies the attitude which dismisses our interdependence, and therefore our obligations towards each other.
- Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate.
- The central dilemma of the war was embodied in these considerations.
- They are defined principally by what they embody on an imaginative level.
- We have embodied the highest possible standards in our ethical codes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► concept
1to be a very good example of an idea or quality SYN represent: · Both professions are concerned with the application to commercial life of rules that often embody generalised concepts.· Charter schools embody concepts all public schools should have in the future.
► form· It follows that with extended reproduction a part of the surplus-value is embodied in the physical form of means of production.· What does it mean to activate an algorithm, or to embody it in physical form?· The left asserts that far from helping the poor it props up capitalism and embodies unacceptable forms of social control.
► idea· The name that embodied the old idea comes to seem as if it no longer named anything.· It is above all the school which is felt to embody the idea of the village as something alive and enduring.
► kind· No philosopher has done more to disown the idea that his writings embody some kind of masterly or authoritative wisdom.
► principle· It does however embody an important principle that a working operation, nomatterhow good, can not be absolutely clean.· However, both the statutory construction of the company and the Caparo judgment embody a principle which should endure.· The same is not true of the following feature of the model, which embodies a fundamental principle of biology.· Remember that the contract you draw up must embody the principles of mutual caring.· The following notes embody these principles and guide you through the pros and cons of the different troops.
► spirit· In fact it may be growing, as he comes to be seen as embodying the spirit of a proud nation.· It is like they embody the spirit of adventure, that sense of infinite newness.· He embodies the spirit of the age.· Through either grace or happenstance, the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.· Although hurriedly completed for the presentation, it was felt that it embodies the Jaguar spirit better than any of the others.
► system· That system was embodied in their structure.· In no country are all the important laws that shape the system of government embodied in a constitutional document.
► value· Indeed it is hardly too much to speak of jade and gold as embodying distinct standards of value.· Army bases compete for $ 10 million in prizes each year, based on how well they embody that value.· While two innovations embodying quite different educational values attempt to coexist it is unlikely that both will be successful.· Schools, he argues emphasise and embody middle-class values.
VERB► seem· He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport: he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit.· It no longer represents the supreme moral and intellectual value that it seemed to embody in the eighteenth century.· It seemed to embody a deep dislike, and she found that wounding.· Quiet men with graceful manners were the ideal of her generation, and he seemed to embody it.
She embodies everything I admire in a teacher.2formal to include something: The latest model embodies many new improvements.