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Answer for the clue "Knocking out of place ", 10 letters:
dislodging

Word definitions for dislodging in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dislodge \Dis*lodge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislodged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dislodging .] [OF. deslogier, F. d['e]loger; pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. logier, F. loger. See Lodge .] To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dislodge English)

Usage examples of dislodging.

One arm swept out, striking the crystal, dislodging it, sending it hurtling towards the far wall.

How many dwarves and elves and humans would have to lie dead among those hilltops before the wretched triumvirate gave up their thoughts of dislodging him and accepted his conquest as final?

He could carve out his kingdom and secure it beyond any hopes the dwarves, elves, and humans might ever hold of dislodging him.

I could feel it dislodging some earth and a few small pebbles, and the gap between them widened by an inch or so.

It gathered volume and speed, crashing over the scree, dislodging more and more slabs, creating fresh rockslides.

As the steam hissed and white smoke rose into the sky, he kicked sand over the fire, dislodging embers and moving the stones around the fire pit.

He avoided dislodging any of the dust he had so generously deposited around the well mouth.

The blow was sufficient to accomplish her design, dislodging the kaldane from its rykor and tumbling it to the ground.

Gahan leaped to his feet and rushed toward the great beast in the hope of dislodging it before it had succeeded in clambering aboard.

Even if Kingsley didn’t cheat his way past the inevitable security checks and had to kamikaze in the spaceport, the damage would have been considerable, destroying the counter-rotating sphere, any ships docked, and possibly dislodging the asteroid from its orbit.

The mouth turned up its corners, dislodging small boulders in the process.

She swallowed it and slung the bag over her shoulder, then nudged his leg again, deliberately dislodging the blanket.