vt, -cat*ed  -cat*ing  :  to put (a body part) out of order by displacing a bone from its normal connections with another bone <he dislocated his shoulder>  : also  :  to displace (a bone) from normal connections with another bone <the humerus was dislocated in the fall>  .
 
    
 
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