DISEMBODY (disembodied)

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Irregular inflected form: disembodied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disembody mean? 

• DISEMBODY (verb)
  The verb DISEMBODY has 1 sense:

1. free from a body or physical form or reality

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISEMBODY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disembody    ... he / she / it disembodies   
Past simple: disembodied   
Past participle: disembodied   
-ing form: disembodying   

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)