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English
Etymology
dis- + locate
Pronunciation
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.
- Synonym: displace
- To emotionally jar, unsettle, or disorient.
1992 May 8, Michael Bronski, “Raging Correctly”, in Gay Community News, page 16:Jarman is out to shock us, not only with some explicit sexuality (as much as he can get away with and still have his film funded by the BBC) but also with a dislocating juxtaposition of historical detail and sensibility.
- (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, 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.
Related terms
Translations
to put something out of its usual place
to dislodge a bone
- Bulgarian: изкълчвам (bg) (izkǎlčvam)
- Catalan: dislocar (ca), luxar (ca), desconjuntar (ca), desencaixar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 脫臼/脱臼 (zh) (tuōjiù)
- Czech: vykloubit
- Dutch: ontwrichten (nl)
- French: disloquer (fr), luxer (fr), déboîter (fr)
- Galician: dislocar (gl)
- German: auskugeln, ausrenken (de), verrenken (de), dislozieren (de)
- Greek: εξαρθρώνω (el) (exarthróno)
- Ancient Greek: ἐξαρθρόω (exarthróō)
- Hungarian: kificamít (hu)
- Italian: slogare (it), lussare
- Japanese: 脱臼する (だっきゅうする, dakkyū suru)
- Kazakh: буынын шығару (buynyn şyğaru), мерт қылу (mert qylu), мертіктіру (mertıktıru)
- Latin: luxō
- Polish: zwichnąć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: deslocar (pt)
- Romanian: disloca (ro)
- Russian: выви́хивать (ru) impf (vyvíxivatʹ), вы́вихнуть (ru) pf (vývixnutʹ)
- Slovene: izpahniti
- Spanish: dislocar (es)
- Tagalog: malinsad
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Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
dislocate
- inflection of dislocare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
dislocate f pl
- feminine plural of dislocato
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
dislocate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of dislocar combined with te