Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to body
Participle: bodied
Gerund: bodying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | body |
| you | body |
| he;she;it | bodies |
| we | body |
| you | body |
| they | body |
Perfect
| I | have bodied |
| you | have bodied |
| he;she;it | has bodied |
| we | have bodied |
| you | have bodied |
| they | have bodied |
Past
| I | bodied |
| you | bodied |
| he;she;it | bodied |
| we | bodied |
| you | bodied |
| they | bodied |
Pluperfect
| I | had bodied |
| you | had bodied |
| he;she;it | had bodied |
| we | had bodied |
| you | had bodied |
| they | had bodied |
Future
| I | will body |
| you | will body |
| he;she;it | will body |
| we | will body |
| you | will body |
| they | will body |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bodied |
| you | will have bodied |
| he;she;it | will have bodied |
| we | will have bodied |
| you | will have bodied |
| they | will have bodied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | body |
| you | body |
| he;she;it | body |
| we | body |
| you | body |
| they | body |
Perfect
| I | have bodied |
| you | have bodied |
| he;she;it | have bodied |
| we | have bodied |
| you | have bodied |
| they | have bodied |
Imperfect
| I | bodied |
| you | bodied |
| he;she;it | bodied |
| we | bodied |
| you | bodied |
| they | bodied |
Pluperfect
| I | had bodied |
| you | had bodied |
| he;she;it | had bodied |
| we | had bodied |
| you | had bodied |
| they | had bodied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would body |
| you | would body |
| he;she;it | would body |
| we | would body |
| you | would body |
| they | would body |
Perfect
| I | would have bodied |
| you | would have bodied |
| he;she;it | would have bodied |
| we | would have bodied |
| you | would have bodied |
| they | would have bodied |
Imperative
| you | body |
| we | Let's body |
| you | body |
Verbs conjugated like 'body'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'body'
bode,
boody,
boy,
abode,
baby,
bad,
bandy,
bay,
bed,
bede,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-
3. Proto-West Germanic *bodag
4. Old English bodiġ
5. Middle English bodi
6. English body
7. From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)).
Sample Sentences
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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. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
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[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […] [1851 March 22, “The Foreign Country at Home. IV. Abergavenny to Swansea.”, in Leigh Hunt, editor, Leigh Hunt’s Journal; a Miscellany for the Cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful, volume I, number 16, London: […] Stewart & Murray, […], →OCLC, page 255:]
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The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth is bodying forth a principle which will later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, “As above, so below.” In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:]
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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. [1955, Philip Larkin, Toads:]
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I keep getting bodied by kids half my age. [2023, “Gaming at 24”, in hyperx (comic):]