bodying

Verb

body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)

1. (often, transitive) To give body or shape to something.
   • And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
3. (transitive) To embody.
   • I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.1955, Philip Larkin, Toads
4. (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
   1. (broadly, slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To utterly defeat someone.
      • I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.2023, “Gaming at 24”, in hyperx (comic)

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