dislocated

dislocate | American Dictionary

dislocate
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈloʊ·keɪt/
to force a bone suddenly out of its correct position:
He dislocated his elbow in the crash.

Examples of dislocate

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The second is what he calls 'the general law of textual supplementarity through which all meanings are dislocated'.
The examples in show that there is no straightforward evidence for analysing preverbal subjects as necessarily dislocated elements.
The attack profiles are modified - either by dislocating it from the following events, or by concentrating the energy of the events.
The play then changes radically, abandoning the conventions of realism, dislocating the hotel room, and placing it into an undisclosed war-zone.
The third part focuses on the structuring of the texts through spatial adjectives dislocated to the left, and describes their double representational and organisational status.
However, it is not clear a priori why individual letters should not be integrated into larger units and be dislocated as such.
Behind the lines, society and economy would be dislocated and thrown into crisis, precipitating mass unemployment and famine at home.
The other is the tendency of actors to convey feeling that blurs the imagery or so saturates the words that the verse becomes dislocated.
The singer's voice is temporally dislocated, due to the long reverb.
They cannot be modified, coordinated, or dislocated or appear in isolation.
The result was that his daily arrangements became hopelessly dislocated.
Three of the dislocated coils were left in place as they did not significantly obstruct flow of blood.
In this he challenges the conventional wisdom that refugees are dislocated people who can be made whole only by repatriating them home.
In each, the rhetoric of the novel is dislocated and unhinged, even rewritten.
The rhythms so arbitrarily dislocated are then patterned by working outward from a midpoint.
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