Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dislocate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dislocated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Dislocating}.] [LL. dislocatus, p. p. of
dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See
{Locus}.]
To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a
bone: To remove from its normal connections with a
neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its
socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. --Shak.
After some time the strata on all sides of the globe
were dislocated. --Woodward.
And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of
joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set
right again. --Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.]
Dislocated. --Montgomery.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dislocate
v 1: move out of position; "dislocate joints" [syn: {splay}, {slip}]
2: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The
colonists displaced the natives" [syn: {displace}]
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