dislocate Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb move out of position
splay; slip; luxate.
- dislocate joints
- the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically
verb put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
- The colonists displaced the natives

LL. dislocatus, p. p. of dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.

imperfect & past participle Dislocated ; present participle & verbal noun Dislocating

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.