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dis·lo·cate

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TRANSITIVE VERB:
dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates

To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship.
To displace (a body part), especially to displace a bone from its normal position.
To throw into confusion or disorder; disrupt: a continuing drought that dislocated the state's economy.

ETYMOLOGY:
Medieval Latin dislocre, disloct- : dis-, dis- + Latin locre, to place (from locus, place)

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