disembody

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to separate a spirit, voice, idea, or consciousness from a physical body

   The recording seemed to disembody the singer's voice from any visible performer.

2. 2
   verb

   to present or imagine something without a material or bodily form

   The theory tends to disembody thought from the physical processes of the brain.

Formed in English from dis-, expressing separation or removal, + embody. Embody itself combines em- with body, so disembody literally means to take out of bodily form.

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