Dis·lo·cate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislocated p. pr. & vb. n. Dislocating ]  To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones.
     After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated.   --Woodward.
     And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again.   --Fuller.
  dislocated
       adj : separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
             shoulder" [syn: disjointed, separated]