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

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 Huggard, E.M.

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 Sinclair, May