body

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

bodies

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

body

past (v2)

bodied

past participle (v3)

bodied

present participle

bodying

3rd person singular

bodies

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Physical frame.

   • He caught a body and got forty years in prison.
   • What’s a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
   • The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

2. 2.Main section.

   • The boxer took a blow to the body.
   • Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
   • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

3. 3.Coherent group.

   • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
   • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
   • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

4. 4.Material entity.

   • The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
   • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
   • We have given body to what was just a vague idea.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To construct the bodywork of a car.

2. 2.To embody.

   • I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.

3. 3.To murder someone.(slang)

   • I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.

4. 4.To give body or shape to something.

   • And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.

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Common

General reading & writing

Very common

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Common