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dislocate

verb
/dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/UK/dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/US

Etymology

From dis- + locate.

  1. borrowed from locātus
  2. prefixed as dislocate — “dis + locate”

Definitions

  1. To put something out of its usual place.

  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.

  3. To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

The neighborhood

Derived

dislocatable, dislocatee, dislocator, undislocate

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA