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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:
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:
Similar:
corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they incarnate ... he / she / it incarnates
Past simple: incarnated
Past participle: incarnated
-ing form: incarnating
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)
