26984 words

dislocated

3 definitions • 4 examples
1
A dislocated joint (= a part of the body where bones join) is one in which a bone has been suddenly forced out of its correct position:

Examples:

a dislocated hip
The jaw is not broken, just dislocated.
2
not in the right or usual place:

Examples:

How can we resettle hundreds of thousands of dislocated people?
3
feeling that you are in the wrong place or that you are not connected to things or people around you:

Examples:

No one would have guessed how alienated I felt, how dislocated and adrift.

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