BODY FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body forth mean? 

• BODY FORTH (verb)
  The verb BODY FORTH has 1 sense:

1. represent in bodily form

  Familiarity information: BODY FORTH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY FORTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represent in bodily form

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

body forth; embody; incarnate; substantiate

Context example:

The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist

Hypernyms (to "body forth" 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

 Context examples 

No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)