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dislocate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  After  some  time  the  strata  on  all  sides  of  the  globe 
  were  dislocated.  --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  --Fuller. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Dislocate  \Dis"lo*cate\,  a.  [LL.  dislocatus  p.  p.] 
  Dislocated.  --Montgomery. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  dislocate 
  v  1:  move  out  of  position;  "dislocate  joints"  [syn:  {splay},  {slip}] 
  2:  put  out  of  its  usual  place  position,  or  relationship;  "The 
  colonists  displaced  the  natives"  [syn:  {displace}] 




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