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INCARNATE

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body

Example:

a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

bodied (having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Possessing or existing in bodily form

Example:

'corporate' is an archaic term

Synonyms:

bodied; corporal; corporate; embodied; incarnate

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make concrete and real

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "incarnate" is one way to...):

actualise; actualize; realise; realize; substantiate (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

disincarnate (make immaterial; remove the real essence of)

Derivation:

incarnation (a new personification of a familiar idea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Represent in bodily form

Example:

The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist

Synonyms:

body forth; embody; incarnate; substantiate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "incarnate" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

incarnation (a new personification of a familiar idea)

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