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
"As thou art a subscriber to the doctrine of the Phaedon, I wish we could disembody our souls, if only for an hour."
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
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 Huggard, E.M.
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
First comes the warning, that disembodied voice over the tannoy: "Your attention please. Air siren in the city. Please move to the shelter on the minus second floor."
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 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
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
Ice-cold air hit them like an oncoming wind: Yaxley, confused, looked around for the source of the trouble and saw Harry’s disembodied hand and wand pointing at him.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
It is worthy of remark that both lycanthropists and witches ascribed the power of disembodying themselves to the use of ointments.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
"And your disembodying yourself, darling, is only a question of time."
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
So far as reason is competent to pronounce on this view considered as a sequel to the disembodying doom of man, it is an arbitrary piece of fancy.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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