Standard Lemma guide

dislocate

verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /dɪsləʊˈkeɪt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /dɪsˈloʊkeɪt/
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH1 S L OW0 K EY0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

verb

Meaning 1

To put something out of its usual place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: displace, disjoint

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To emotionally jar, unsettle, or disorient.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: luxate

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

put out of its usual place, position, or relationship

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The colonists displaced the natives

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: displace

5

verb

Meaning 5

move out of position

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • dislocate joints
  • the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: luxate, splay, slip

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: move, displace

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English locate English dislocate From dis- + locate.

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: измествам (izmestvam) — to put something out of its usual place
  • Bulgarian: премествам (premestvam) — to put something out of its usual place
  • Chinese Mandarin: 弄亂 /弄乱 (nòngluàn) — to put something out of its usual place
  • Latin: dislocō — to put something out of its usual place
  • Spanish: desencajar — to put something out of its usual place
  • Swedish: flytta — to put something out of its usual place
  • Swedish: undantränga — to put something out of its usual place
  • Swedish: tränga undan — to put something out of its usual place
  • Bulgarian: изкълчвам (izkǎlčvam) — to dislodge a bone
  • Catalan: dislocar — to dislodge a bone
  • Catalan: luxar — to dislodge a bone
  • Catalan: desconjuntar — to dislodge a bone
  • Catalan: desencaixar — to dislodge a bone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 脫臼 /脱臼 (tuōjiù) — to dislodge a bone
  • Czech: vykloubit — to dislodge a bone
  • Dutch: ontwrichten — to dislodge a bone
  • French: disloquer — to dislodge a bone
  • French: luxer — to dislodge a bone
  • French: déboîter — to dislodge a bone
  • Galician: dislocar — to dislodge a bone
  • German: auskugeln — to dislodge a bone
  • German: ausrenken — to dislodge a bone
  • German: verrenken — to dislodge a bone
  • German: dislozieren — to dislodge a bone
  • Greek: εξαρθρώνω (exarthróno) — to dislodge a bone
  • Ancient Greek: ἐξαρθρόω (exarthróō) — to dislodge a bone
  • Hungarian: kificamít — to dislodge a bone
  • Italian: slogare — to dislodge a bone
  • Italian: lussare — to dislodge a bone
  • Japanese: 脱臼する (dakkyū suru) — to dislodge a bone
  • Kazakh: буынын шығару (buynyn şyğaru) — to dislodge a bone
  • Kazakh: мерт қылу (mert qylu) — to dislodge a bone
  • Kazakh: мертіктіру (mertıktıru) — to dislodge a bone
  • Latin: luxō — to dislodge a bone
  • Polish: zwichnąć — to dislodge a bone
  • Portuguese: deslocar — to dislodge a bone
  • Romanian: disloca — to dislodge a bone
  • Russian: выви́хивать (vyvíxivatʹ) — to dislodge a bone
  • Russian: вы́вихнуть (vývixnutʹ) — to dislodge a bone
  • Slovene: izpahniti — to dislodge a bone
  • Spanish: dislocar — to dislodge a bone
  • Spanish: descoyuntar — to dislodge a bone
  • Spanish: luxar — to dislodge a bone
  • Tagalog: malinsad — to dislodge a bone