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# embody

«embody» in Mova's school dictionary: **to show it clearly in a person or thing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (embodies, embodied, embodying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To embody an idea is to show it clearly in a person or thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embody/#m1)

2) To embody something is to include it or contain it as a part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embody/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a tale's hero shows a quality, and a fable carries a lesson inside its story

### examples

- The fox embodies cunning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embody/#x1)
- This tale embodies an old lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embody/#x2)
- The statue embodies the spirit of the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embody/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «embody» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embody/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.