Dislocate

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  • transitive verb. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship.
  • transitive verb. To displace (a body part), especially to displace a bone from its normal position.
  • transitive verb. To throw into confusion or disorder; disrupt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Dislocated.
  • To displace; put out of regular place or position; hence, to interrupt the continuity or order of; throw out of order; disjoint; derange.
  • Specifically
  • In surgery, to put out of joint or out of position, as a limb or an organ; particularly, to displace from the socket of the joint, as a bone; luxate; disjoint, as by violence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Dislocated.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to put something out of its usual place
  • verb. to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. move out of position
  • verb. put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
  • Word Usage
    "According to the Office of Medical Services '(OMS) guidelines, these techniques were designed to "psychologically' dislocate 'the detainee, maximize his feeling of vulnerability and helplessness, and reduce or eliminate his will to resist our efforts to obtain critical intelligence. ""
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