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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disembodied
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
voice
▪ A disembodied voice, a dead girl's voice.
▪ It came, as so much did for her now, in the cadences of a disembodied voice.
▪ An order from a disembodied voice.
▪ Her own disembodied voice, speaking.
▪ Second, de Gaulle proved exceptionally well-suited to this role of disembodied voice.
▪ Cleaners working in the tunnels between Kelvinbridge and Hillhead Stations used to report hearing disembodied voices of women singing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Some believe the dead return to earth as disembodied spirits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A disembodied voice, a dead girl's voice.
▪ An order from a disembodied voice.
▪ And Notes from Underground is precisely such a fable of disembodied consciousness.
▪ D'Arcy punched the intercom button and introduced himself to the disembodied Oriental voice at the other end.
▪ He suddenly turned his head as though a disembodied finger had tapped his shoulder.
▪ Her own disembodied voice, speaking.
▪ It came, as so much did for her now, in the cadences of a disembodied voice.
▪ The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disembodied

Disembodied \Dis`em*bod"ied\, a. Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.

The disembodied spirits of the dead.
--Bryant.

Disembodied

Disembody \Dis`em*bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Disembodying.]

  1. To divest of the body or corporeal existence.

    Devils embodied and disembodied.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers.
    --Wilhelm.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disembodied

1742, past participle adjective from disembody (1714), from dis- "not" + embody. Related: Disembodiment.

Wiktionary
disembodied
  1. Having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial. v

  2. (en-past of: disembody)

WordNet
disembodied

adj. not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts" [syn: discorporate, unembodied, bodiless, unbodied]

disembody
  1. v. free from a body or physical form or reality

  2. [also: disembodied]

disembodied

See disembody

Wikipedia
Disembodied (Buckethead album)

Disembodied is Buckethead's second album under the name Death Cube K (an anagram for Buckethead). It was released on July 22, 1997 by ION Records, and was produced by Bill Laswell.

Disembodied (Rottrevore album)

Disembodied is a compilations of Rottrevore's EPs and Demos. It also has some very rare material previously only released on split compilations.

Tracks 1-5 from the "The Epitome of Pantalgia" Demo

Tracks 6-9 from the "Copulation of the Virtuous and Vicious" EP

Tracks 10-11 from the "Fornication in Delirium" EP

Track 12 from the "Son of Bllleeeeaaauuuurrrrgghhh!" Comp.-EP

Track 13 from the "Pantalgia" Comp.-LP

There is a 14th track that has the band dedicating a show to "a guy they saw on Route 70 sucking on a ladies shoe".

Disembodied

Disembodied or The Disembodied may refer to:

  • Disembodied (band), American metalcore band
  • Disembodied (Buckethead album), a 1997 album by Buckethead under the name Death Cube K
  • Disembodied (Rottrevore album), 2005
  • Disembodied, having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial
Disembodied (band)

Disembodied is an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1995 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally featuring Aaron Weseman (vocals), Justin James Kane (drums), Tara Johnson (bass), Joel Andrew Johnson (guitar) and Mario Diaz de León (guitar), the band split up and reunited in 1999 and 2008, respectively.

Usage examples of "disembodied".

Through flowing electrafluid that kept his disembodied brain alive, he transmitted an order to his cymek shock troops.

A thousand years ago, after their victory, the original Titans had agreed to surgical conversion rather than accept their mortality, so that their disembodied brains could live forever and consolidate their rule.

While consulting the ancient Cogitor, one of many spiritual minds who contemplated esoteric questions, she had seen the possibilities of living as a disembodied brain.

Guided by traitorous disembodied brains, the neo-cymeks rallied to attack a crowd of human rebels.

Inside the preservation canister, his disembodied brain churned with a crackle of faulty data and distorted impressions from damaged thoughtrodes.

Long ago, the Cogitor had unwittingly aided Juno and her companions in their overthrow of the Old Empire, and Eklo's disembodied brain had been the inspiration for the Titans to convert themselves into cymeks.

I mean, I can speculate possibilities from disembodied tissues, but this .

Another disembodied hand provided a table on which a dish of choice foods was set.

On the far side of the field the mounds of disembodied walls, floors and roofs marked the graveyard of the old facilities, damaged when Petaybee had erected its ziggurat complaint against the Intergal despoilation.

Master Norist had been horri­fied to learn that the Weyrleaders of Pern believed that this disembodied voice could actually instruct them on how to turn the Red Star from its orbit and prevent it from ever swinging close enough to Pern to drop the avaricious and hungry Thread.

Thread truly was a menace to bodies and growing things, but the Aivas Abomination had been a more insidious menace to the very minds and hearts of men and women, and from its disembodied words a perfidious treachery had been spread.

The disembodied philosopher had spent centuries in the precursor of the City of Introspection.

Though the disembodied ancient brain might have seemed distant and less able to comprehend human tragedies, Serena found that Kwyna could indeed offer a healing perspective that no one else, not even Serena's own mother, had been able to offer.

He could never allow these disembodied philosophers to leave without at least one conversation — even if he was forced to use his Jipol associates to keep them here against their will.

When guided by a disembodied human brain, this cymek warrior had caused much destruction during Agamemnon's deadly raid to bring down the planet's shield transmitters.