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
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 O'Shea, John Augustus
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
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
It was an uncanny experience: Literal scores of people who had previously been disembodied online avatars or voices on the phone were now conjured before me in the flesh, like a resting-pulse sequel to Jumanji.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2025
A startled-looking Macron backed up as disembodied hands smushed his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
Sometimes Jason stood in the underground temple of Epirus, the giant Clytius looming over him, speaking in a chorus of disembodied voices: It took all of you together to defeat me.
From "Blood of Olympus" 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 Warren, Henry White
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 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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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