English adjective: incarnate | |||
| 1. | incarnate possessing or existing in bodily form | ||
| Samples | What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind. An incarnate spirit. `corporate' is an archaic term. | ||
| Synonyms | bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied | ||
| Similar | corporeal, material | ||
| Antonyms | incorporeal, immaterial | ||
| 2. | incarnate invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | ||
| Samples | A monarch...regarded as a god incarnate. | ||
| Similar | bodied | ||
| Antonyms | unbodied | ||
English verb: incarnate | |||
| 1. | incarnate (creation) make concrete and real | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | actualise, actualize, realise, realize, substantiate | ||
| Antonyms | disincarnate | ||
| 2. | incarnate (stative) represent in bodily form | ||
| Samples | He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system. The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist. | ||
| Synonyms | body forth, embody, substantiate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | be | ||