dislocate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/
Verb
dislocate (third-person singular simple present dislocates, present participle dislocating, simple past and past participle dislocated)
- to put something out of its usual place
- (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
- 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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Synonyms
Translations
to put something out of its usual place
to dislodge a bone
Italian
Verb
dislocate
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