Dislodge

Quick meaning: Dislodge is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.

Meaning

(transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
2. (transitive, figurative) To force out of a secure or settled position.

Example Sentences

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns.

Hinshelwood says he had "the biggest smile on my face for a long time" when he learned no rocks from the 2019 project had been dislodged by the 2020 deluge.

In 1955, No. 30783, after a collision with an H15 4-6-0 at Bournemouth in which its right-hand cylinder was dislodged, required very extensive frame renewals.

Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.

Word Forms

• dislodges
• dislodging
• dislodged

Synonyms for dislodge

Depending on context, synonyms include shift, free, displace, reposition, bump.

Antonyms for dislodge

Common opposites include stick, wedge, deposit, lodge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include displace, bump, reposition, free, shift, expel.

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