incorporate
to include as part of a whole
Roots
- corp / corpus: body or body-like group
- in- / im- (in/into): in, into, within, or on
Other words with the corp / corpus root
- corporation: a legal body or company
- corporeal: bodily or physical
- corpse: a dead body
Incorporate means put into the body: a part joins the larger whole.
The teacher incorporated one student's example into the next lesson.
Corpus gives body. Incorporate is not just add. It makes something part of the body of a plan, argument, company, or system.