dislocated

4 definitions found

dislocated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           After some time the strata on all sides of the globe
           were dislocated.                         --Woodward.
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           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.
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  dislocated \dislocated\ adj.
     separated at the joint; -- used especially of limbs; as, a
     dislocated knee.
  
     Syn: disjointed, separated.
          [WordNet 1.5]

dislocated - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dislocated
      adj 1: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
             shoulder" [syn: disjointed, dislocated, separated]

dislocated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "dislocated":
     alienated, amiss, askew, awry, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged,
     detached, disarranged, disarticulated, discomfited, discomposed,
     disconcerted, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint,
     disjointed, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, disorganized,
     dispersed, displaced, disturbed, disunited, divided, divorced,
     estranged, haywire, in disorder, isolated, misplaced, on the fritz,
     out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter,
     out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed,
     removed, roily, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered,
     shuffled, shut off, turbid, turbulent, unhinged, unjointed,
     unsettled, upset