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dislocated

dislocated is the simple past and past participle of dislocate.

Adjective

dislocated (comparative more dislocated, superlative most dislocated)

  1. Out of place; in a place other than is usual.
    • At this point, other ships in the U.S. formation began to spot the incoming Japanese column. Duncan, one of the racing trio of destroyers, and Boise independently spotted the contacts, and both Boise and Helena now reported their sightings to Scott, a few minutes later. But with San Francisco still...2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 14:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022
  2. Disconnected.
    • Every day the stock market is pushed higher by the Fed, it becomes more dislocated from reality. The homebuilder stocks are more dislocated from fundamental reality now than they were at the peak of the bubble.2015 April 13, “New Home Sales: Lumber And Houston Are Crashing”, in Investment Research Dynamics, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020

Meaning of dislocate

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

Forms of dislocated

comparativemore dislocated
superlativemost dislocated

Words formed from dislocated

Questions about dislocated

What does dislocated mean?
Dislocated means out of place; in a place other than is usual.
What is dislocated the simple past and past participle of?
Dislocated is the simple past and past participle of dislocate.
What part of speech is dislocated?
Dislocated is an adjective.

Words near dislocated in the dictionary

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

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