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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The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at _his_ time of life.
They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order.
The fighting strength of a python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body.
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