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incarnate
adjective
verb
Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
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ɪnˈkɑːneɪt
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adjective
Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
“A monarch … regarded as a god incarnate”
adjective
Possessing or existing in bodily form
“{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind'}”
verb
Make concrete and real
verb
Represent in bodily form
“He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”
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A monarch … regarded as a god incarnate
{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind'}
An incarnate spirit
‘corporate’ is an archaic term
He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist
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