personify
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- IPA (key): /pəˈsɒnɪfʌɪ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: per‧so‧ni‧fy
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- (transitive) If something is personified, it is a representation in the form of a character.
- Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
- The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.