body
/ˈbɑdi/ verb C2- To give body or shape to something.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- To embody.
- To murder someone.
- To utterly defeat someone.
He/she/it bodies · Past bodied · Past participle bodied · -ing form bodying
Verb forms
- Base form
- body
- He/she/it
- bodies
- Past
- bodied
- Past participle
- bodied
- -ing form
- bodying
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Suddenly, he felt an arm thrown around his body, and a well-known voice behind him exclaimed, “Father—dear father!”
It is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk.
“You see,” he continued confidentially, “I don’t mind my legs and arms and body being stuffed, because I cannot get hurt.
I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone.
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