embody

Verb

• represent or express something abstract in tangible form
  • This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period
    

• represent, as of a character on stage
  • Derek Jacobi was Hamlet
    

• represent in bodily form
  • He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
    
  • The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  be , personify , incarnate , body forth , substantiate