dislocate

dislocate
    v 1: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial
         hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn:
         {dislocate}, {luxate}, {splay}, {slip}]
    2: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The
       colonists displaced the natives"
    

Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dislocated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Dislocating}.] [LL. dislocatus, p. p. of
   dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See
   {Locus}.]
   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.
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         After some time the strata on all sides of the globe
         were dislocated.                         --Woodward.
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         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.
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Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.]
   Dislocated. --Montgomery.
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "dislocate":
      clutter, derange, disarrange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose,
      dishevel, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, displace, disrupt,
      disturb, jumble, litter, luxate, mess, mess up, misarrange, mix up,
      muss, muss up, remove, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, shift,
      ship, tousle, transfer, unhinge, unjoint, unseat