dislocate

Verb

US[dis-loh-keyt]/ˈdɪsloʊkeɪt/3 syllables

Synonyms: luxate splay slip

Open English WordNet

Verb (2)dislocated, dislocating

move out of position“dislocate joints”“the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically”Synonyms: luxate splay slipMore general move, displace
put out of its usual place, position, or relationship“The colonists displaced the natives”More general displace

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Dis′lo·cate transitive verb [past tense & past participle Dislocated; present participle & verbal noun Dislocating.]

Origin: 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. William Shakespeare

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated.— John 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.— Thomas Fuller

Dis′lo·cate adjective

Origin: LL. dislocatus, p. p.

Dislocated. Montgomery.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54