MEANING
1. To move a bone at a joint out of its normal alignment.
2. To displace or disturb an established arrangement, system, or community.
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Words that belong together
- dislocate a shoulder
- dislocated joint
On the page
The fall dislocated her shoulder before the rope caught.
He knew the joint was dislocated when the arm would not turn.
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Word forms
- Base
- dislocate
- Past tense
- dislocated
- Past participle
- dislocated
- Present participle
- dislocating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dislocate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dislocating
- Present perfect
- have/has dislocated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dislocating
- Past
- dislocated
- Past continuous
- was/were dislocating
- Past perfect
- had dislocated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dislocating
- Future
- will dislocate
- Future continuous
- will be dislocating
- Future perfect
- will have dislocated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dislocating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: dislocate; dislocates; dislocated; dislocated; dislocating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: dislocates.
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