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Definition of 'dislocate'

verb

Move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn: dislocate, luxate, splay, slip]

verb

Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]
After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.] Dislocated. --Montgomery. [1913 Webster]