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personify
verb as in represent some other being, character
Example Sentences
Germany this time is personified by a defendant: Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe and second only to the Führer in the military command.
Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.
In other words, he personified the scale of the issue and the depth and breadth of the anger provoked by it – and yet he was let out of prison by accident.
It is unlikely that anyone without the authority and drive uniquely personified in this president could have achieved something like that.
The last word went to Mohammed Siraj, who personified the unbreakable spirit and never-say-die attitude of a young India team.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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