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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dislocated
    adj 1: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
           shoulder" [syn: disjointed, dislocated, separated]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dislocated \dislocated\ adj.
   separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a
   dislocated knee.

   Syn: disjointed, separated.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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.
   [1913 Webster]

         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 dislocated:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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