Other forms: dislodged, dislodging, dislodges
To dislodge something is to force it out of its fixed place. A stone from a wall, food from between two teeth.
It usually takes force or an accident, and the thing dislodged was stuck. The word has a political use that is very common in reporting, since dislodging a leader or a government means shifting somebody who was firmly in place. Sport uses it for a team knocked off the top of a table. It is more precise than move and more formal than knock loose.
Old French
deslogier
Middle English
disloggen
English, today
dislodge
From Middle English disloggen, from Old French deslogier. Compare French déloger. Equivalent to dis- + lodge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, A Song of Ice and Fire
First appears in chapter 11 of A Man Called Ove.
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