1.
[syn: dislocate, luxate, splay, slip]
2. put out of its usual place, position, or relationship;
- Example: "The colonists displaced the natives"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.]
Dislocated. --Montgomery.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dislocate \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.
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After some time the strata on all sides of the globe
were dislocated. --Woodward.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dislocate
v 1: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial
hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn:
dislocate, luxate, splay, slip]
2: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The
colonists displaced the natives"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "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