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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, adjective [LL. dislocatus, p. p.] Dislocated. --Montgomery.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. --Woodward.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dislocate
verb
1: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn: {luxate}, {splay}, {slip}]
2: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives" [syn: {displace}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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