Dislodge

/dɪsˈlɒdʒ/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

Four yeas later the same committee estimated that during the Yangtze flood of 1935 some 73,000,000 mou of agricultural land were submerged and 14,000,000 people dislodged from their homes. There were no detailed reports on the actual loss of life, but Han-ch'uan county in Hupei was caught entirely unprepared and saw 220,000 of its entire population of 290,000 carried away by the waves.

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.

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.

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

The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.

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• dislodges
• dislodging
• dislodged

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