personify
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they personify | |
he / she / it personifies | |
past simple personified | |
past participle personified | |
-ing form personifying |
- personify something
to be an example of a quality or characteristic, or to have a lot of it synonym typify是…的典型;集中表现 - [usually passive]
to show or think of an object, quality, etc. as a person 拟人化;把…人格化
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French personnifier, from personne ‘person’.