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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dislocate
    v 1: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial
         hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn:
         dislocate, luxate, splay, slip]
    2: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The
       colonists displaced the natives"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.]
   Dislocated. --Montgomery.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         After some time the strata on all sides of the globe
         were dislocated.                         --Woodward.
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         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.
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Thesaurus Results for dislocate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
clutter, derange, disarrange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose, dishevel, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, displace, disrupt, disturb, jumble, litter, luxate, mess, mess up, misarrange, mix up, muss, muss up, remove, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, shift, ship, tousle, transfer, unhinge, unjoint, unseat
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