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Webster 1913 Edition
Dislocate
Dis′lo-cate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dislocated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
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 bonesShak.
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.
Dis′lo-cate
,Adj.
[LL.
dislocatus
, p. p.] Dislocated.
Montgomery.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dislocate
DISLOCATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dislocate
dislocate
English
Verb
dislocate (third-person singular simple present dislocates, present participle dislocating, simple past and past participle dislocated)
- to put something out of its usual place
- (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, ISBN 1163911380, page 63:
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
- Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.
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Synonyms
Translations
to dislodge a bone