Dislocate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship.
  • v. To displace (a body part), especially to displace a bone from its normal position.
  • v. To throw into confusion or disorder; disrupt: a continuing drought that dislocated the state's economy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to put something out of its usual place
  • v. to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • adj. Dislocated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To displace; put out of regular place or position; hence, to interrupt the continuity or order of; throw out of order; disjoint; derange.
  • Specifically
  • In surgery, to put out of joint or out of position, as a limb or an organ; particularly, to displace from the socket of the joint, as a bone; luxate; disjoint, as by violence.
  • Dislocated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move out of position
  • v. put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
  • Verb Form
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    displace    move   
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    Words with the same meaning
    displace    disjoint    dislocated   
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