bodily

adjective

ˈbä-də-lē How to pronounce bodily (audio)
Definition of bodilynext
as in physical
of or relating to the human body the old man suffered from a number of bodily ailments

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Recent Examples of bodily Rodriguez pleaded no contest in December 2025 to assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and was sentenced in January to two years of probation. — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 Throw in a dash of bodily horror, and suddenly Hig’s descent into a pit of obvious-from-space disaster becomes the film’s most interesting sequence, with all the good and bad that interesting entails. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026 Deputy Isaiah Williams is charged with domestic battery by strangulation, battery causing bodily harm, tampering or fabricating evidence and robbery sudden snatching. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026 Karen Solomon was wanted for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon with serious bodily injury, Saucier said at a news conference Friday. — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bodily
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physical
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  • If physical gestures serve our relatives just fine, why did our own branch of the family tree gradually favor biological changes in our brains and anatomy that permitted our characteristic complexities in language and precision in speech?
    — Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
  • His best explanations for this are pressure from shareholders to prioritize immediate returns over long-term investments, and years of obsession with digital that came at the expense of physical retail.
    — Hilary Milnes, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of physical

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“Bodily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodily. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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