verb
- Move out of position.
- usage: "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
- Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship.
- usage: "The colonists displaced the natives"
- synonyms: dislocate
adjective
- Separated at the joint.
- usage: "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
- synonyms: disjointed, separated
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