DISLOCATE

dislocate

(verb) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; “The colonists displaced the natives”

dislocate, luxate, splay, slip

(verb) move out of position; “dislocate joints”; “the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

dislocate (third-person singular simple present dislocates, present participle dislocating, simple past and past participle dislocated)

To put something out of its usual place.

Synonym: displace

(medicine) To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

Anagrams

• lactoside

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis"lo*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dislocating.] Etym: [LL. dislocatus, p. p. of dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.]

Definition: To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. Shak. After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. Woodward. And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.

Dis"lo*cate, a. Etym: [LL. dislocatus, p. p.]

Definition: Dislocated. Montgomery.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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