单词 | disembodied |
释义 | disembodied (once / 6238 pages) adj Something that's disembodied is disconnected from a solid form or body. If you hear a disembodied voice coming from your basement, it's spooky and ghostly, with no visible shape or form. Use the adjective disembodied to describe something that's separate from any substantial structure. A magic trick might make it appear that a disembodied head is floating in the air, and a mysterious voice or cry ringing out in the night would also seem to be disembodied. The root of disembodied is the verb embody, which had the earliest meaning of "invest a soul or spirit with a physical form." WORD FAMILYdisembody: disembodied, disembodying+/embodied: unembodied/embodiment: embodiments/embody: disembody, embodied, embodies, embodiment, embodying USAGE EXAMPLESWe never see her, but only hear her in a few passages as a disembodied, angelic voice. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) “A bullet will kill you three ways,” says the disembodied voice of Ryan Phillippe, the star of the show, after a gunshot roars. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) It focuses on an enormous, disembodied mouth slurping up variously colored goo. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) adj not having a material body Syn bodiless, discorporate, unbodied, unembodied immaterial, incorporeal without material form or substance |
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