Home › Words › U › unlimbunlimbunlimb means to remove a limb or limbs from.EtymologyFrom un- + limb.verbTo remove a limb or limbs from.e.g.“[…] at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium […]” — 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).