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disembody

disembody verb: to cause someone's soul, spirit, consciousness, voice, etc, to become separated from the physical body.

Verb

disembody (third-person singular simple present disembodies, present participle disembodying, simple past and past participle disembodied)

  1. To cause someone's soul, spirit, consciousness, voice, etc, to become separated from the physical body.
  2. To separate (a part of the body) from the body.
    • "[he] wore the high, stiff collars which were the fashion of the day: in pictures these tend to disembody his head, making him look constrained, uncomfortable, yet they remained his choice."1982, William Buchan, John Buchan: a memoir, page 109
    • Jerusha turned, a flush on her cheeks that wasn't makeup, a swath of steam from the vaporizer swirling around her chest, disembodying her head.2015, Marlys Millhiser, Nightmare Country, →ISBN
  3. To discharge from military service or array.

disembody meaning in Kannada

disembody in Kannada

ಮಯ್ಬಿಡು, ಮಯ್ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗು

Forms of disembody

third-person singular presentdisembodies
present participledisembodying
past participledisembodied
pastdisembodied

Origin of disembody

From dis- + embody.

Words formed from disembody

Questions about disembody

What does disembody mean?
Disembody means to cause someone's soul, spirit, consciousness, voice, etc, to become separated from the physical body.
What is disembody in Kannada?
Disembody in Kannada is ಮಯ್ಬಿಡು, ಮಯ್ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೋಗು. See Disembody meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is disembody?
Disembody is a verb.
What is the past tense of disembody?
The past tense of disembody is disembodied.

Words near disembody in the dictionary

  1. disembodiedly
  2. disembodiedness
  3. disembodies
  4. disembodiment
  5. disembodiments
  6. disembody
  7. disembodying
  8. disembogue
  9. disembogued
  10. disemboguement
  11. disemboguements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disembody (page history and authors); disembody (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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