1. Possessing or existing in bodily form
   "what seemed embodied melted as breath into the wind";
   - bodied, corporal, corporate [archaic], incarnate

1. Represent or express something abstract in tangible form
   "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
    
2. Represent in bodily form
   "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system";
   - incarnate, body forth, substantiate
    
3. Represent, as of a character on stage
   "Derek Jacobi embodied Hamlet";
   - be, personify

See also: corporeal, material

Type of: correspond, represent, stand for, symbol [archaic], symbolise [Brit], symbolize, typify

Encyclopedia: Embodied