body

Meanings

Noun

  • Physical frame.
  • Main section.
  • Coherent group.
  • Material entity.
  • The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  • A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Verb

  • To give body or shape to something.
  • To construct the bodywork of a car.
  • To embody.
  • To murder someone.
  • To utterly defeat someone.
  • to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

Origin

  • From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ ("body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature"), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag ("body, trunk"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ("to be awake, observe").

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