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desoul

desoul verb: to strip of a soul.

Verb

desoul (third-person singular simple present desouls, present participle desouling, simple past and past participle desouled)

  1. (transitive) To strip of a soul.
    • The crucial shared features are desouling, release of the soul from its “vessel,” and travel by transformation from one level of existence to another through a portal linking levels.1998, Shirley Boteler Mock, The Sowing and the Dawning, page 38
    • […] there followed centuries of the exploration of matter that has led to the matter-worship of our modern age and the desouling of the world.2005, Robert B. Clarke, An Order Outside Time

Forms of desoul

third-person singular presentdesouls
present participledesouling
past participledesouled
pastdesouled

Origin of desoul

From de- + soul.

Questions about desoul

What does desoul mean?
Desoul means to strip of a soul.
What part of speech is desoul?
Desoul is a verb.
What is the past tense of desoul?
The past tense of desoul is desouled.

Words near desoul in the dictionary

  1. desotamide
  2. desotamides
  3. DeSoto
  4. DeSoto County
  5. DeSoto Parish
  6. desoul
  7. desouled
  8. desouling
  9. desouls
  10. Desousa
  11. Desousas

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