Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free (the soul or spirit) from the body.
- transitive verb To divest of material existence or substance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divest of body; free from flesh.
- To discharge from military incorporation; disarm (a military body) and release from service for a specified period: as, the militia was disembodied.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
- transitive verb (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cause one'ssoul ,spirit , orconsciousness to becomeseparated from thephysical body . - verb To separate from an object or group
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb free from a body or physical form or reality
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't entirely disagree with this, but to emphasize "feeling" and to disembody "meaning" so thoroughly takes our attention too far way from the fact that finally style is a matter of words on a page.
Style in Fiction 2009
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The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody (through denying the victim authority over his/her own physical self), extract confessions (whether true or false) and ultimately permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'.
Shirin Sadeghi: The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters 2009
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To disembody heads of beloved television characters.
Books 2009
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To disembody heads of beloved television characters.
Art 2009
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To disembody heads of beloved television characters.
August 2009 2009
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She also sees the desire to articulate color in words as an attempt to disembody women from menstruation, their bodily function.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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To disembody heads of beloved television characters.
incipit vita nova 2009
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In Remainder, the INS general secretary puts his theoretical ideas to lively yet unobtrusive use, for the Re-enactor himself does not realize he is a Necronaut; he is simply a bloke, and, with Naz facilitating at his side he hopes, like the rest of us, to dominate matter, the better to disembody it.
Two Paths for the Novel Smith, Zadie 2008
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It's up to others' interface choice as to whether or not you see my avatar's tag, and it's not like I can't disembody my viewpoint anyway and be an invisible eye... so why can't I be tiny?
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You know, there's a lot of bluster about well, you know, I can get a woman or I want to see a woman for her parts and disembody her and I don't think that deep down it feels very good.
bilby commented on the word disembody
If I can find a spare head, I might adopt this one.
June 8, 2008