The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dislocate English)
Usage examples of "dislocating".
And was it true that my mother, under the dislocating influence of that hysterical evening, relinquished her hold on her habitual self‑which she had felt slipping away from her into the absorbing sponge of the lightless air in the stairwell‑and entered a state of mind in which anything might happen and be believed?
Rain drumming against my mother's ears, adding to the confusion of fortune‑teller and maternal credulity and the dislocating presence of strangers' possessions, making her imagine all manner of strange things.
Approaching Appleseed Rectory from the direction of the village could be a particularly dislocating experience.
Takin' all my friends out for a" And his voice was a horrible, dislocating thing, without body, shape, or feeling, a nerveless skirl that seemed to empty the air around it.
Her head snapped left, then right, and her mouth was so wide open that she seemed in danger of dislocating her jaw.
In that battle, Kamahl had been forced to disable two nantuko, breaking all four legs on one beast with a vicious leg sweep and dislocating the shoulders of another when the nantuko warrior struggled against the vines Kamahl had summoned to entangle the creature.
Stummert shrieked and shook me, telling me that I would wind up in either Hell or reform school and nearly dislocating my arm.