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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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dislocated
adj : separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
shoulder" [syn: {disjointed}, {separated}]
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