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

You will never disembody the monads, and so remove their representative power; you will only reduce their bodies and so impoverish their representative power.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard

At a review he publicly insulted the corps he was so long trying to disembody; he either rode past them without noticing them, or made remarks on their appearance the reverse of complimentary.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea

A siren blares and a disembodied voice counts down: "Three, two, one".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

By the end of the book, the reader appreciates even better how misleading it is to think of cellphone calls and the internet as a whole as occurring in an abstract elsewhere, a disembodied cyberspace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

And in a perfect casting move, Christopher Lloyd, who played Fester in the film, appears as a disembodied head in a jar who teaches at the academy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

I recognized the owner of the disembodied voice.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

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

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

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

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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