incarnare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to incarnate (to embody in flesh)
  2. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to represent
  3. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to actualize, to realize
  4. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to play the role of
  5. (transitive) to sink (one's teeth, etc.) into flesh
  6. (intransitive) to paint with the colour/color of flesh

Hyphenated as
in‧car‧nà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/in.karˈna.re/
Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin incarnāre, derived from Latin carō (“flesh”).

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