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Personify

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

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Broader term 9

Ascribe 76% connected

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a boo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Be 76% connected

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

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Embody 76% connected

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 treatis…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impute 76% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

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.

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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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Manner of action 3

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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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.

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Derivationally related 6

Image 74% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Image 74% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Person 74% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Person 74% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Personification 74% connected

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Personification 74% connected

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

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

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.

Body 92% 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 68% interchangeable

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Embody 92% connected

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 treatis…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Personate 92% connected

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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