dislocated : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dislocated	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dislocated adj separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" Synonym(s): disjointed, dislocated, separated
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dislocate \Dis"locate\, 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. 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.