incarnate

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Flesh-colored; crimson.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
2. (broadly, intransitive) To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
4. (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

Synonyms

embody

embodied

personified

personify

corporeal

impersonate

transform

personate

transfigure

disguise

corporal

corporate

substantiate

bodied

born

🐣

body forth

manifest

impersonated

appear

blushing

come into being

concretize

externalize

flesh colour

actualize

objectify

personalize

realize

red

represent

having body

having limb

Translations

incarnare

incarner

impersonare

encarnado

encarnar

leibhaftig

encarnar

personifiziert

personificare

incarné

ενσαρκώνω

incarnat

verkörpern

canlandırmak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈ kɑːɹ.nɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: incarnat

In summary

First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).