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What does dislocate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dislocate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. to put something out of its usual place
  2. (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
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I'm suggesting that, at the present time, it would not make sense to dislocate those 7,500 people.
You can dislocate your jaws and wrest your hands out of their joints, they still haven't understood you and will never understand you.
But military action by Germany was to dislocate this scheme, and only the British offensive came fully into operation.
There was no direct blow to the scapula and the shoulder did not dislocate.
The humeral head can dislocate anteriorly, posteriorly or inferiorly in relation to the glenoid fossa.
This means that they can dislocate their jaw to make the maximum opening size possible for prey to go through.

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