disembody
Americanverb (used with object)
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Febos said she chose to center the body in the title to help ground her and the book: to dispel the learned impulse to disembody our writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
"It's an awakening perhaps, for the children - but unfortunately a stressful one, really deeply stressful, because it's a bodily experience. You can't disembody yourself to escape it."
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2020
In fact, Gadsby rejuvenates standup by making a moral statement about the self-deprecation that allowed her to disembody her trauma.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2018
Oh, if I could only disembody myself; fly back to London for a few hours; and listen invisibly to society talking about me.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw
V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
A siren blares and a disembodied voice counts down: "Three, two, one".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The installation ends with two vigorous Frankenthalers from 1961 and 1977, dramas enacted by disembodied pools of luminous hues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
In his fall 1971 convocation address at the University of Alberta, McLuhan told students that in an electronic world, people become “discarnate data, a sort of disembodied spirit coexisting and functioning simultaneously in diverse locations.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
“There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy,” says the disembodied voice.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
My half-changed voice had a disembodied, inspired quality.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mika Tajima gives form to the vague sense of unease many people feel in this disembodying digital era.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
"It kind of comes to life right in front of your eyes, and especially being able to have satellite footage and that kind of thing, it's really quite, almost a disembodying feeling."
From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2022
But mist in a moonlight forest is even more disembodying than mist on a moonlight sea.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Learning that they were bent on "disembodying" me, and not liking the sound of the word, I had very quietly removed myself from my regiment to the Staff.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various
Please understand that there was no talk of discharging me; no talk of demobilising me; no talk even of disembodying me.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various
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