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Dislocate
//dɪsˈloʊkeɪt// verb
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Verb
- 1 To put something out of its usual place.
- 2 put out of its usual place, position, or relationship wordnet
- 3 To emotionally jar, unsettle, or disorient.
"Jarman is out to shock us, not only with some explicit sexuality (as much as he can get away with and still have his film funded by the BBC) but also with a dislocating juxtaposition of historical detail and sensibility."
- 4 move out of position wordnet
- 5 To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.
"Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra."
Etymology
From dis- + locate.
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