bodying
USBAH-dee-ing/ˈbɑ.di.ɪŋ/UKBO-dee-ing/ˈbɒd.i.ɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of body.
The novelist is bodying forth a whole world within her pages.
Bodying his grief into music, he wrote steadily through the night.
Note
The -ing form keeps the y of body intact: bodying, not bodiing, even though bodies and bodied switch it to i. It carries every verb sense of body, from giving shape to an idea (bodying forth a world) to building a car's bodywork. In slang it can also mean killing someone or thoroughly beating them, so the surrounding sentence decides which meaning is in play.
bodying is a form of body
body, verb: To give body or shape to something, making it fuller or more substantial. Full entry
- Spelling
- body → bodying: add -ing
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