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Embody

To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.

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Manner of action 4

Body 76% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exemplify 76% connected

To show or illustrate by example.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Personify 76% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 4

Correspond 76% connected

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each othe…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Symbolize 76% connected

To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Typify 76% connected

To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Avatar 74% connected

The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Avatar 74% connected

The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shape 74% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shape 74% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Be 92% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Incarnate 92% connected

Not in the flesh; spiritual.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Personify 92% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Substantiate 92% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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