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to disembody

to disembody

1 8.3
To separate a mind or experience from its physical body
  • verb
  • /ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑdi/
  • Literature
translation icon : desencarnar
  • The babble of voices speaking in French drifted through the willows and cottonwoods, strangely disembodied.

Your your article is teaching women how to disembody themselves from letting another person inside of them so that they can what, claim that that's freedom?

Examples

  • The sound of voices reached out to them now, disembodied grunts, mutterings, and laughter that the dilapidated walls could not keep in.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • What I needed to know was strangely disembodied.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • If you're not on stage in five minutes, you can consider yourself... permanently disembodied from the entire show.

    Meet the Feebles (1989)

  • "Her whisper seemed to her disembodied, a voice from the room's shadows.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I listen to soldiers whispering to each other, their tentative voices far away, disembodied.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • All he hears is the crackle of the cop's radio, disembodied voices, sputtering codes.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • June hadn't had a single day of sun, and I felt disembodied walking Telegraph Hill, like a wisp of fog myself, blown by the constant wind.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • When the narrator described the scene, it felt disembodied, as if the words came from nowhere.

  • She often felt disembodied while meditating, as if her mind was free from her physical body.

  • The disembodied voice echoed in the empty hall, sending chills down our spines.

Synonyms

to dematerialize
vsto disembody
  • US
5 9.6

Disappear from sight and stop having a physical form

is about actively freeing something from a body or concrete reality
to disincarnate
vsto disembody
  • Literature
9.9

Make a spirit or mind leave its physical body

is used more broadly to free things or ideas from body or concrete reality
to immaterialize
vsto disembody
9.9

To make something lose its physical form and seem to disappear

is about freeing something from a body or concrete reality
to unsubstantialize
vsto disembody
  • Formal
9.9

To make something lose its physical form

focuses on freeing things from a body or concrete reality rather than stripping substance

Antonyms

to embody
104 5.1

Show an idea, quality or feeling in a clear visible way

How Abstract

to abstract
  • Formal
1 6.4
to idealize
14 5.8
to disembody
  • Literature
1 8.3
to generalize
  • US
41 4.2

Surface Forms

disembody infinitive
disembodied past
disembodied past participle
disembodying present participle
disembodies third person singular

Morphology

disembody = embody (semi-transparent) = dis + em + body

If a learner knows 'embody', adding 'dis-' clearly gives the sense of removing from bodily or concrete form.

Etymology

Disembody comes from the part dis- meaning 'remove' and embody, which has the familiar word body meaning 'body'. So to disembody is to take away the body or free something from its physical form.