0 present participle of epitomize
1 to be a perfect example of a quality or type of thing:
With little equipment and unsuitable footwear, she epitomizes the inexperienced and unprepared mountain walker.
Date palms were planted on the top deck of the moon boat, creating a hanging garden, and thus epitomizing oases in the desert.
It is a work epitomizing the "materia medica" known at the time.
The next three chapters explore reported speech as a conversational resource, particularly for constructing "portraits" of contrastive selves, for summarizing, dramatizing, crediting or discrediting, and epitomizing (96-98).
In another, it embodies all that is selfish, vindictive, and anti-social within human communities, epitomizing treachery and disharmony in societies that strive for unity and neighbourliness.
Then the role of religion, education and law and order are discussed as qualities epitomizing respectability.
