Dislodge

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  • intransitive verb. To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
  • intransitive verb. To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To remove or drive from a lodgment or resting-place; displace from a normal or a chosen position or habitation: as, to dislodge a stone from a cliff; to dislodge an army or the occupants of a house.
  • To go from a place of lodgment, abode, or rest.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose.
  • transitive verb. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense.
  • intransitive verb. To go from a place of rest.
  • noun. Dwelling apart; separation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
  • verb. To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
  • verb. To force out of a secure or settled position.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. change place or direction
  • verb. remove or force out from a position
  • verb. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
  • Word Usage
    "Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns."
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    remove  take  take away  withdraw  
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dodge  Hodge  Lodge  dodge  lodge  
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