disembody

American  

[dis-em-bod-ee] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈbɒd i /

verb (used with object)

disembodied, disembodying

1. to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.

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disembody British  

/ ˌdɪsɪmˈbɒdɪ /

verb

1. (tr) to free from the body or from physical form

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Other Word Forms

• disembodiment
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of disembody

First recorded in 1705–15; dis- ¹ + embody

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

disembody disembodied disembodying

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

I see him stopped at some uninteresting station, and sitting there waiting—patiently waiting—for me to disembody myself and come on.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

Disflesh, dis-flesh′, v.t. to deprive of flesh, to disembody.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

“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

But when reality rudely interrupts this feel-good dynamic, like the realization that she is disembodied and that he is losing feelings for her, he wants out and to revert back to his comforts.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2025

A disembodied voice said: Lord Auster will see you now.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

So he must find a way of disembodying and of attachment to some force swift as lightning, of which there are plenty in the spaces when the world has ceased to be a world.

From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

"And your disembodying yourself, darling, is only a question of time."

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

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

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