dislodge
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪsˈlɒdʒ/
dislodge (dislodges, present participle dislodging; past and past participle dislodged)
- (transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (intransitive) To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns.
- (transitive, figurative) To force out of a secure or settled position.
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