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DISLOCATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dislocate mean?
• DISLOCATE (verb)
The verb DISLOCATE has 2 senses:
2. put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
Familiarity information: DISLOCATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: dislocated
Past participle: dislocated
-ing form: dislocating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move out of position
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
dislocate; luxate; slip; splay
Context example:
the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically
Hypernyms (to "dislocate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
dislocation (an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity)
dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The colonists displaced the natives
Hypernyms (to "dislocate" is one way to...):
displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
dislocation (the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue)
dislocation (an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity)
dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))
Context examples
Dislocated joints often are swollen, very painful and visibly out of place.
(Dislocations, NIH)
His collar-bone was found to be dislocated, and such injury received in the back, as roused the most alarming ideas.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Well, I think doing a few things for yourself will hardly dislocate any joints.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Should the hip become dislocated by this movement, the result is considered positive.
(Barlow's Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)
A method of euthanization whereby the spinal column is dislocated from the skull and brain.
(Cervical Dislocation, NCI Thesaurus)
If the hip is dislocated, it will relocate with an audible clunk, which is a positive result for this test.
(Ortolani Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)
A glycoprotein with a glycan in the form Glc0-3Man8GlcNAc2 is released from the calnexin cycle, recognised by a mannosidase- like protein EDEM and dislocated from the ER to the cytosol.
(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A method of euthanization whereby a subject is anesthetized and the spinal column is dislocated from the skull and brain.
(Anesthesia and Cervical Dislocation Euthanasia, NCI Thesaurus)
A dislocated joint is an emergency.
(Dislocations, NIH)
Treatment depends on which joint you dislocate and the severity of the injury.
(Dislocations, NIH)
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