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disembody

[ US /dɪsɪˈbɑdi/ ]
VERB
  1. free from a body or physical form or reality

How To Use disembody In A Sentence

  • Learning that they were bent on "disembodying" me, and not liking the sound of the word, I had very quietly removed myself from my regiment to the Staff. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
  • 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
  • In partial contrast, early knowledge programs attempted to disembody all knowledge from its possessors to make it an organizational asset.
  • 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
  • It seems to me to be at least open as a possible point of view, that the moment you disembody business - deal with this concept of business being transmitted - that consequences follow, including the one I have identified.
  • So far as reason is competent to pronounce on this view considered as a sequel to the disembodying doom of man, it is an arbitrary piece of fancy. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • He believed that what he called our ‘modern technocracy ‘- the heir of Enlightenment rationalism which condemns humankind's religious dimension to the catacombs - ‘more than any other age tends to disembody man’.
  • Can it create community and commitment or does it eviscerate, virtualize, minimize, and disembody them?
  • Let us suppose that you or i, brethren, shall become a free and disembody spirit.
  • 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. CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2006
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