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dislocate

/dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/US/dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/

dislocate verb: to put something out of its usual place.

Verb

dislocate (third-person singular simple present dislocates, present participle dislocating, simple past and past participle dislocated)

  1. To put something out of its usual place.
    Synonyms:
    displace, disjoint
  2. 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.1992 May 8, Michael Bronski, “Raging Correctly”, in Gay Community News, page 16
  3. 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...a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench...
    Synonyms:
    luxate

dislocate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

dislocate in Tamil

இடப் பெயர்ச்சி, இடமாற்றம், சீர்க் குலைவு, நிலை குலை, நிலைகுலைவு

dislocate in Urdu

الگ کرنا

dislocate in Malayalam

ഉളുക്കുപറ്റുക, സ്ഥാനഭ്രംശം വരുത്തുക, സ്ഥലം മാറ്റുക, സ്ഥാനം തെറ്റിക്കുക

dislocate in Kannada

ಪೀಕು, ಜಾಗ ತಪ್ಪಿಸು, ನಿರುಗೆ ಕೆಡಿಸು, ಕೀಲು ತಪ್ಪಿಸು, ಸ್ಥಾನಪಲ್ಲಟಮಾಡು, ಬಿಡಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
dislocate in Tagalog
malinsad

Examples of dislocate in a sentence

  • My shoulder was dislocated. It was agony to have it put to rights.
  • Every day the stock market is pushed higher by the Fed, it becomes more dislocated from reality.
  • I dislocated something in my spine when I was head banging.

All 19 example sentences with dislocate

Synonyms of dislocate

Forms of dislocate

third-person singular presentdislocates
present participledislocating
past participledislocated
pastdislocated

Past tense of dislocate: dislocated

Origin of dislocate

From dis- + locate.

Words formed from dislocate

Questions about dislocate

What does dislocate mean?
Dislocate means to put something out of its usual place.
What is dislocate in Tamil?
Dislocate in Tamil is இடப் பெயர்ச்சி, இடமாற்றம், சீர்க் குலைவு. See Dislocate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dislocate?
Dislocate is a verb.
How do you pronounce dislocate?
Dislocate is pronounced /dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dislocate?
The past tense of dislocate is dislocated.

Words near dislocate in the dictionary

  1. dislocalizations
  2. dislocalize
  3. dislocalized
  4. dislocatability
  5. dislocatable
  6. dislocate
  7. dislocated
  8. dislocatedly
  9. dislocatedness
  10. dislocatee
  11. dislocatees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dislocate (page history and authors); dislocate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dislocate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dislocate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dislocate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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