embodies
Sayim-BOD-eezUS/ɪmˈbɑdiz/UK/ɪmˈbɒdiz/AUSim-BAW-deez/ɪmˈbɔdiz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of embody.
The memorial embodies a community's grief and its determination to rebuild.
She embodies the patience and resolve the role demands.
Note
The final y of embody becomes ie before the -s ending, the same change seen in carries and denies. Most uses take a direct object. A person embodies a quality, a code of laws embodies a principle, and a whole embodies its parts. A rarer intransitive use takes no object at all and means to unite into one body or mass.
embodies is a form of embody
embody, verb: To give an idea or quality a concrete, physical form; to personify or incarnate something. Full entry
- Spelling
- embody → embodies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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