English-Swedish translations for embody

• förkroppsliga
  Innan någon annan insåg EU:s grundare att det framväxande Europa krävde robusta demokratiska europeiska institutioner för att förkroppsliga de allt starkare banden mellan de sex grundarländerna.Before anyone else, the founding fathers had the intuition that the emerging Europe required robust democratic European institutions to embody the increasingly stronger ties between the Six.

Definition of embody

• To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify
• To represent in some other form such as a code of laws
• To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of
• To unite in a body or mass

Examples

• As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
• The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
• The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

Related words

• disembody
• disembodied
• embodiment
• embodied
• disembodiment
• embodied energy