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Dislodge
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- 1 To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied. transitive
"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."
- 2 remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied wordnet
- 3 To move or go from a dwelling or former position. intransitive
"Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns."
- 4 remove or force out from a position wordnet
- 5 To force out of a secure or settled position. figuratively, transitive
"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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- 6 change place or direction wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English disloggen, from Old French deslogier. Compare French déloger.
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