Dislocated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dislocated \dislocated\ adj.
     separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a
     dislocated knee.
  
     Syn: disjointed, separated.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dislocated
       adj : separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
             shoulder" [syn: {disjointed}, {separated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "dislocated":
     alienated, amiss, askew, awry, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged,
     detached, disarranged, disarticulated, discomfited, discomposed,
     disconcerted, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint,
     disjointed, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, disorganized,
     dispersed, displaced, disturbed, disunited, divided, divorced,
     estranged, haywire, in disorder, isolated, misplaced, on the fritz,
     out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter,
     out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed,
     removed, roily, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered,
     shuffled, shut off, turbid, turbulent, unhinged, unjointed,
     unsettled, upset