| Main Entry: | personify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent some other being, character |
Synonyms: |
act out, body forth, contain, copy, emblematize, embody, epitomize, exemplify, express, exteriorize, externalize, hominify, humanize, illustrate, image, imitate, impersonate, incarnate, live as, make human, manifest, materialize, mirror, objectify, personize, substantiate, symbolize, typify |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain by playing a role |
Synonyms: |
be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge, strut*, take part, tread the boards |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate |
Synonyms: |
act like, ape, burlesque, do, do a take-off, do like, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, fake, follow, follow example, follow suit, go like, illustrate, incarnate, knock off, make like, mimic, mirror, mock, model, parody, parrot, personify, phony, pirate, play a role, prefigure, repeat, sham, simulate, steal, take leaf out of book, take off, travesty, typify |
Antonyms: |
be original |
| Main Entry: | embody |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent; materialize |
Synonyms: |
actualize, complete, concretize, demonstrate, emblematize, epitomize, evince, exemplify, exhibit, express, exteriorize, externalize, hypostatize, illustrate, incarnate, incorporate, manifest, mirror, objectify, personalize, personify, realize, reify, show, stand for, substantiate, symbolize, typify |
Antonyms: |
disembody, exclude |
| Main Entry: | epitomize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | typify |
Synonyms: |
characterize, embody, exemplify, illustrate, mean, model, personify, represent, stand for, symbolize |
| Main Entry: | exemplify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | serve as an example |
Synonyms: |
body, cite, clarify, clear up, demonstrate, depict, display, elucidate, emblematize, embody, enlighten, epitomize, evidence, exhibit, illuminate, illustrate, instance, manifest, mirror, personify, quote, represent, show, spell out, symbolize, typify |
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
Synonyms: |
allegorize, bring home, clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, draw a picture, elucidate, emblematize, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across, get over, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out, limelight, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, mirror, ostend, personify, picture, point up, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify |
Antonyms: |
hide, obscure |
| Main Entry: | manifest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exhibit, make plain |
Synonyms: |
confirm, declare, demonstrate, display, embody, establish, evidence, evince, expose, express, exteriorize, externalize, flash, illustrate, incarnate, let it all hang out, mark, materialize, objectify, ostend, parade, personalize, personify, personize, proclaim, prove, reveal, set forth, show, show and tell, showcase, signify, sport, strut, substantiate, suggest, utter, vent, voice, wave around |
Antonyms: |
bury, conceal, cover, obscure, withhold |
| Main Entry: | materialize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into being |
Synonyms: |
actualize, appear, be incarnate, be realized, become concrete, become real, become visual, coalesce, come about, come to pass, corporealize, develop, embody, emerge, entify, evolve, exteriorize, externalize, happen, hypostatize, make real, manifest, metamorphose, objectify, occur, personalize, personify, personize, pragmatize, realize, reify, substantialize, substantiate, symbolize, take form, take place, take shape, turn up, typify, unfold, visualize |
| Main Entry: | mirror |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy, reflect |
Synonyms: |
act like, depict, double, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, exemplify, follow, glass, illustrate, image, imitate, make like, mimic, personify, represent, show, simulate, symbolize, take off, typify |