DISLODGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dislodge mean? 

• DISLODGE (verb)
  The verb DISLODGE has 3 senses:

1. remove or force out from a position

2. change place or direction

3. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

  Familiarity information: DISLODGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISLODGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dislodge    ... he / she / it dislodges   
Past simple: dislodged   
Past participle: dislodged   
-ing form: dislodging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove or force out from a position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dislodge; free

Context example:

He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble

Hypernyms (to "dislodge" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

lodge (put, fix, force, or implant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change place or direction

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dislodge; reposition; shift

Context example:

Shift one's position

Hypernyms (to "dislodge" 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)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dislodge"):

beat down (dislodge from a position)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bump; dislodge

Context example:

The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space

Hypernyms (to "dislodge" is one way to...):

displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dislodge"):

throw (cause to fall off)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

dislodgement (forced removal from a position of advantage)

 Context examples 

This results in flaccid paralysis of worm musculature allowing the worm to become dislodged by peristalsis and expelled from the body.

(Piperazine Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)

If a clot grows too big, pieces dislodged by blood flow (emboli) can block downstream blood vessels in the lungs or brain, leading to life-threatening complications such as pulmonary embolism or ischemic stroke.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Issue associated with an undesired movement of device and/or device components, related to its movement away from or dislodging from a source.

(Migration of Medical Device or Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)

I shook my head and paused in the act of dislodging the shavings which had drifted down my neck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The little dog retreated under the sofa on my approaching him, and was with great difficulty dislodged by the fire-irons.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

From the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Scientists previously focused most of their studies on Greenland's glaciers, in the southeast and northwest regions of the country, and found that the glaciers have increasingly been dislodging chucks into the ocean.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

His braced fore paws dislodged a pebble, and with sharp-pricked ears and peering eyes he watched the fall of the pebble till it struck at their feet.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Once, I remember, as we passed over the Gemmi, and walked along the border of the melancholy Daubensee, a large rock which had been dislodged from the ridge upon our right clattered down and roared into the lake behind us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She brushed her nose with her paws, trying to dislodge the fiery darts, thrust it into the snow, and rubbed it against twigs and branches, and all the time leaping about, ahead, sidewise, up and down, in a frenzy of pain and fright.

(White Fang, by Jack London)