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

Etymology

Origin of disembody

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

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

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

Paintings of seated figures almost dissolving into disembodied but anatomically correct drawing, made between about 1941 and 1946, enlarge this story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

“Is that you, Bobby?” came a disembodied voice from above.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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 William Rounseville Alger