dislocate

Other forms of dislocate

past tense

dislocated·

present participle

dislocating·

third person

dislocates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dislocate

What does dislocate mean?

dislocate means "move out of position". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dislocate?

dislocate has 3 syllables: dis-lo-cate. The stress falls on "dis". In IPA it is /ˈdɪsloʊkeɪt/.

What is another word for dislocate?

Close synonyms include luxate, splay, slip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dislocate a common word?

dislocate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.