See Also: dislocate(medicine)
dislocate(1)(dictionary)
dislocate(2)(dictionary)
dislocate(dictionary)

dislocate(2) (iou)



dislocate verb trans. L16.
[Prob. back-form. from DISLOCATION, but perh. from DISLOCATE adjective: see -ATE3.]
Destroy or disturb the normal connection of (a joint or limb); displace (a bone) from its proper position. L16.
gen. Put out of a proper (or former) place; displace, shift. Now rare. E17.
G. Meredith No sooner was he comfortably established than she wished to dislocate him.
Put out of proper position or orientation in relation to adjoining parts. M17.
R. L. Stevenson Something, flood or earthquake, had dislocated the whole structure at one joint, so that it hung two ways.
Put (affairs, the working of something) out of order or out of the normal course; upset, disrupt. M17.
M. L. King To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it.
dislocative adjective (rare) serving to dislocate, causing dislocation. E19.
dislo'catory adjective causing dislocation. L19.