Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, a. [LL. dislocatus, p. p.] Dislocated. --Montgomery.
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.
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.
Already they report a sharp decline in orders from last year's boom levels, while further problems with imports could seriously dislocate production.
Summa said that similar efforts to dislocate the homeless were unsuccessful in Grand Central, also run by the MTA, where benches were removed or closed off and ammonia poured into telephone booths to keep loiterers from settling in.