bodily1 adjectivebodily2 adverb
bodilybod‧i‧ly1 /ˈbɒdəli $ ˈbɑː-/ adjective [only before noun] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- bodily functions
- bodily needs
- Albert agreed to turn over samples of his hair and bodily fluids to the court.
- Parretti had a lengthy criminal record that included fraud and conspiracy to commit bodily harm.
- the threat of death or serious bodily harm
- The villagers have to go down to the lake to perform most of their bodily functions.
- Constrictions in the face and various bodily appendages.
- If the neurons control automatic bodily functions, heart rate and breathing are impaired.
- It is a genuine attack by the self upon the body, by which mental anguish is swapped for bodily pain.
- Our pain lies in our bodily selves, Larry, not in our souls.
- Pratt denies assault causing actual bodily harm.
- The conduct may be either causing a wound or causing grievous bodily harm.
- Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.
Longman Language Activatorrelating to the body
relating to the body, not the mind: · Your son appears to be in good physical health.· She has suffered terrible physical as well as emotional abuse for over 12 years.· A lot of British people avoid physical contact with strangers.· Man's primary needs are physical -- food, drink and sleep.physical fitness: · Nearly three quarters of the women surveyed said they were satisfied with their physical fitness.
relating to the body or produced by the body: bodily fluids: · Albert agreed to turn over samples of his hair and bodily fluids to the court.bodily harm (=damage to the body): · Parretti had a lengthy criminal record that included fraud and conspiracy to commit bodily harm.perform your bodily functions (=go to the toilet, wash yourself etc): · The villagers have to go down to the lake to perform most of their bodily functions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The nervous system regulates our bodily functions (=eating, breathing, going to the toilet etc).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
related to the human body: The nervous system regulates our bodily functions (=eating, breathing, going to the toilet etc).· Yet our narratives, or ways of thinking, are grounded in our bodily experiences in nature and society.
· The disease has no cure and is spread through bodily fluids.
· Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.· It comes along with taking birth into a particular bodily form.· You only recognize it when it rises in bodily form, like the Daurog itself.· Johnny Boy, according to some reports, was seething resentment in bodily form.· Of course, our bodily forms and somewhat disorganized working systems were in contradiction to their understanding of the correct codes of policing.· This usually means effects on the processes of embryonic development and hence on bodily form and behaviour.
· Bob's humour was based on everything from swearing to drug-taking and bodily functions.· Any thoughts I had of eating, drinking or relieving bodily functions were forgotten.· Most people consider elimination to be a very private bodily function and therefore find it an embarrassing subject to discuss with hospital staff.· The intimate aspects of bodily function are more easily expressed with a person of the same gender.· The one thing I didn't have to worry about was losing control of my bodily functions.· It was the fact of having bodily functions.· The subset containing fabliaux with lavatory humour, tales concerning basic bodily functions of excretion or flatulence, are fewer in number.· If the neurons control automatic bodily functions, heart rate and breathing are impaired.
· A 19 year old female student from Bath University was charged by Essex police with unlawful imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm.· He had threatened to do bodily harm to all of us.· The accused, however, remains charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and the trial continues.· Actual bodily harm need not be serious harm and it has been held to include a hysterical and nervous condition.· Garrington admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Ian Dixon and he was fined £50.· Liddle is also charged with grievous bodily harm.· Makka, who admitted causing Susan grievous bodily harm, was jailed for five years.· Grievous bodily harm, about twenty-five years ago.
· Now he is being tried for kidnapping, wrongful imprisonment and bodily injury.
· Patriarchal religion is built on many millennia of repressed fear of the power of female bodily processes.· Even under the weight of negative male definitions of female bodily processes, there remain hints of its positive aspects for women.
· We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation.· I shall now try to make explicit these other lines of thought about the location of bodily sensations.
bodily sensationsbodily1 adjectivebodily2 adverb
bodilybodily2 adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- They lifted the child bodily aboard.
- And if the earth, as well as spinning, moves bodily around the sun, why doesn't it leave the moon behind?
- I seem to have to transplant myself bodily.
- Then he bodily picked up Orlando Sentinel reporter Donna Blanton and twirled her around on his hip.
- Then, with a desperate effort threw himself bodily away.
- When men and women joined bodily, they rid them-selves of their bodies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The nervous system regulates our bodily functions (=eating, breathing, going to the toilet etc).
1by moving the whole of your or someone else’s body: The nervous system regulates our bodily functions (=eating, breathing, going to the toilet etc). He lifted the child bodily aboard.2by moving a large object in one piece: The column was transferred bodily to a new site by the bank of the river.