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DISEMBODY (disembodied)

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Irregular inflected form: disembodied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disembody mean? 

DISEMBODY (verb)
  The verb DISEMBODY has 1 sense:

1. free from a body or physical form or realityplay

  Familiarity information: DISEMBODY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISEMBODY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they disembody  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it disembodies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: disembodied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: disembodied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: disembodying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from a body or physical form or reality

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "disembody" is one way to...):

disembarrass; free; rid (relieve from)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody


 Context examples 


In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words—her faith—her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Walled by the living clay, that fierce intelligence we had known burned on; but it burned on in silence and darkness. And it was disembodied.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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