incorporate

Formsincorporates, incorporating, incorporated

1. 1
   verbtransitive

   To make something a part of a larger thing.

   Like adding a new piece to a puzzle so it becomes part of the picture.

   The new design will incorporate ideas from the whole team.

   They incorporated her suggestions into the final plan.

   Similarintegrate, absorb, assimilate, subsume, co-opt

   Oppositeexclude, omit

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2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To mix one thing into another until they blend together.

   Like stirring sugar into water until you can't see it anymore.

   Slowly incorporate the eggs into the flour.

   She incorporated the butter into the dough by hand.

   Similarmix, blend, fold, combine, stir

3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To turn a business into an official, legal company.

   Like giving a business its own ID card so the law treats it as its own thing.

   They decided to incorporate the bakery to protect their savings.

   She incorporated her small business last year.

4. 4
   verbtransitive

   To accept someone as a member of a group or company.

   Like a club letting a new person join and become one of the members.

   The guild voted to incorporate three new craftsmen.

   They incorporated her into the partnership after five years.

   Similaradmit, induct, enroll, absorb

   Oppositeexpel

5. 5
   verbintransitive

   To combine different things into one solid mass.

   Like mixing flour and water until they become one lump of dough.

   Knead the dough until the ingredients incorporate into a smooth ball.

   The materials slowly incorporated into a single firm block.

   Similarblend, combine, merge, fuse, mix

   Oppositeseparate

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6. 6
   verbtransitive or intransitive

   To give something a physical form, or join it to a real body.

   Like a ghost taking on a real body you could touch.

   Some believe a soul can incorporate into living flesh.

   The myth tells how the spirit incorporated itself in a human shape.

   Similarembody, materialize

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7. 7
   verbUStransitive

   In US law, to make one of the rights in the Constitution apply to state governments too.

   Like a national rule being stretched so your local town has to follow it too.

   The Supreme Court chose to incorporate the right to free speech against the states.

   Over the years, courts incorporated most of these protections one by one.

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8. 8
   adjective

   Not set up as a legal company with rights of its own.

   an incorporate banking association

   Here, incorporate means not set up as a corporation under the law.

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9. 9
   adjective

   Having no body, made of spirit rather than matter.

   Like a ghost you can see but never touch.

   Ghosts in the story are incorporate, passing straight through walls.

   She imagined the soul as something incorporate, untouched by the body.

   Similarincorporeal, immaterial, bodiless, spiritual, disembodied

   Oppositecorporeal, material, physical

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