Dislocating

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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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