to disincarnate

Examples

• All

• A delusive smoke she was, or a most deceptive mirage, or lightness disincarnate.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The magician tried to disincarnate his spirit from the physical realm during the ritual.

• Falstaff disincarnates the abstraction—it literally vanishes into thin air—in contrast to the Roman practice of simultaneously naming and embodying abstract ideas.

  Academic text (1997)

• In his dreams, he felt himself disincarnate, floating beyond the confines of the material world.

Synonyms

D

to dematerialize

vsto disincarnate

• US

5 9.6

Disappear from sight and stop having a physical form

means deliberate removal of real essence rather than passive disappearance

D

to disembody

vsto disincarnate

• Literature

1 8.3

To separate a mind or experience from its physical body

emphasizes removing the real essential nature not only separating from a body

U

to unsubstantialize

vsto disincarnate

• Formal

9.9

To make something lose its physical form

focuses specifically on freeing from bodily form rather than only substance

I

to immaterialize

vsto disincarnate

9.9

To make something lose its physical form and seem to disappear

stresses removal of the real essence rather than mere loss of substance

Antonyms

M

to materialize

63 5.8

To become real or happen as hoped

I

to incarnate

• Formal

1 7.0

Show an idea clearly in something you can see or touch

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology