Meaning of DISLOCATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'dislow`keyt
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- [v] put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"
- [v] move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
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| | Synonyms: | | displace, luxate, slip, splay |
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| | See Also: | | move, resettle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Dis"lo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dislocated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Dislocating}.] [LL. dislocatus, p. p. of
dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See
{Locus}.]
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. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.]
Dislocated. --Montgomery.
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| | Related Terms: | | clutter, derange, disarrange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose, dishevel, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, displace, disrupt, disturb, jumble, litter, luxate, mess, mess up, misarrange, mix up, muss, muss up, remove, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, shift, ship, tousle, transfer, unhinge, unjoint, unseat |
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