Dislocate

Quick meaning: Dislocate is a verb meaning To put something out of its usual place.

Meaning

To put something out of its usual place.

More Meanings

1. To emotionally jar, unsettle, or disorient.
2. (medicine) To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

Example Sentences

Jarman is out to shock us, not only with some explicit sexuality (as much as he can get away with and still have his film funded by the BBC) but also with a dislocating juxtaposition of historical detail and sensibility.

Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

Word Forms

• dislocates
• dislocating
• dislocated

Synonyms for dislocate

Depending on context, synonyms include displace, disjoint, luxate, slip, splay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include displace, splay, slip, uproot, unplace, put out.

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