desoul

English

Etymology

de- +‎ soul

Verb

desoul (third-person singular simple present desouls, present participle desouling, simple past and past participle desouled)

1. (transitive) To strip of a soul.
   • 1998, Shirley Boteler Mock, The Sowing and the Dawning, page 38:

     The crucial shared features are desouling, release of the soul from its “vessel,” and travel by transformation from one level of existence to another through a portal linking levels.

   • 2005, Robert B. Clarke, An Order Outside Time:

     […] there followed centuries of the exploration of matter that has led to the matter-worship of our modern age and the desouling of the world.

Anagrams

• loused, souled