Disarticulate
/dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt/ verb
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To disjoint. transitive
"I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back."
- 2 separate at the joints wordnet
- 3 To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone. transitive
Example
More examples"I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back."
Etymology
From dis- + articulate.