• Dislocate

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/

    Full definition of dislocate

    Verb

    1. to put something out of its usual place
    2. (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
      • a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." Chapter Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, 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.
      • Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.

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