Associations to the word «Dislocate»

Wiktionary

DISLOCATE, verb. To put something out of its usual place
DISLOCATE, verb. (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint

Dictionary definition

DISLOCATE, verb. Move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically".
DISLOCATE, verb. Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne