Invest with or as with a body; give body to.

synonym: body.

Roget 521: employ a metaphor etc. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.   

Represent, as of a character on stage.

synonyms: be, embody.

Dutch: spelen

Attribute human qualities to something.

synonym: personate.

Roget 554: represent, delineate; depict, depicture^†; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness etc. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe etc. 594; trace, copy; mold.    dress up; illustrate, symbolize.    paint etc. 556; carve etc. 557; engrave etc. 558.    personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play etc. (drama) 599; mimic etc. (imitate) 19; hold the mirror up to nature.    ... show more