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Dislocate

Dislocate Meaning & Definition
Dislocate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dislocate?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dislocate: displace | luxate | slip | splay

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dislocate: 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

See Also | move | resettle

Dislocate In Webster's Dictionary

\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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