disarticulate

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ articulate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt

Verb

disarticulate (third-person singular simple present disarticulates, present participle disarticulating, simple past and past participle disarticulated)

1. (transitive) To disjoint.
   • 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:

     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. (transitive) To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone.

Related terms

• disarticulation
• inarticulate
• unarticulate
• unarticulated

 

Translations

to disjoint

• Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam), разчленявам (bg) (razčlenjavam)
• Greek: αποδιαρθρώνω (el) (apodiarthróno)
• Portuguese: desarticular (pt)
• Romanian: dezarticula (ro)
• Spanish: desarticular (es)