Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disembodied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Disembodied.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic disembodied

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

dis- + body + -ed

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word disbodied.

Examples

  • Down hissed the blow and it bit that little, white, heart-holding hand until it flew amiss and disbodied up through the sunlit air.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • The mountains up-twirled, disbodied and inverted, stand on their peaks and throw their bowels to the sky.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • While we rode we were disbodied, unconscious of flesh or feeling: and when at an interval this excitement faded and we did see our bodies, it was with some hostility, with a contemptuous sense that they reached their highest purpose, not as vehicles of the spirit, but when, dissolved, their elements served to manure a field.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Down hissed the blow and it bit that little, white, heart-holding hand until it flew armless and disbodied up through the sunlit air.

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

  • The mountains up-twirled, disbodied and inverted, stand on their peaks and throw their bowels to the sky.

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.