Some believe the dead return to earth as disembodied spirits.
EXAMPLES FROM THE 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.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►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.
1existing without a body or separated from a body: disembodied spirits2a disembodied sound or voice comes from someone who cannot be seen