DISLOCATES Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

dislocates

verb

present tense third-person singular of dislocate

as in relocates

to change the place or position of dislocated his shoulder in the accident

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as in disrupts

to undo the proper order or arrangement of the country's entire social structure was dislocated by the war

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Recent Examples of dislocates Louis rips his spine out, dislocates his jaw, and reads Claudia’s diary entries about how she was repeatedly assaulted by him. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 22 June 2026 Boy in the 1700s dislocates his shoulder. — Reshma Gopaldas, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026 Zoey was allegedly diagnosed with Nursemaid’s elbow, a common elbow injury among young children and toddlers that occurs when a child’s elbow is pulled and one of the bones partially dislocates. — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025

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The process relocates healthy follicles to areas affected by thinning or recession.

— Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
Simply titled Elle, the new prequel series chronicles Elle's time as a high school student in Seattle after her family relocates from Los Angeles.

— Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

Definition of relocates

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Alcohol disrupts sleep, but drinking earlier may give your body more time to process it before bedtime, reducing its impact on sleep quality.

— Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 17 July 2026
What causes insomnia during perimenopause Perimenopause disrupts sleep through a combination of hormonal shifts that affect the body in overlapping ways.

— Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2026

Definition of disrupts

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That ranking uses a similar methodology to the Billboard Global 200, but purposefully removes consumption from American listeners.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
This move removes Iran’s primary justification for disrupting shipping in the SOH and for attacking its neighbors.

— Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of removes

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On a cloudy-white Sunday morning in June, Joey Phelps shuffles into the familiar back pew of Yeakley Chapel, the small Methodist church that has been a part of his life for nearly 50 years.

— Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2026
As though on cue, Wardrobe — my beloved, and giant, closet — shuffles over from the corner of my room, the mahogany wood groaning with the effort.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026

Definition of shuffles

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Propulsion system moves toward flight testing The AVEN is the main part that gives X-BAT the ability to direct its thrust for vertical takeoff, landing, and hovering.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 July 2026
The new plan, unveiled earlier this month, moves warehouses north of her property in Manhattan.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

Definition of moves

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These opportunists drown out the core mission, creating a cacophony of competing voices that confuses donors, crowd the inboxes of CEOs and members of Congress with colliding petitions, and paralyzes meaningful action by draining critical funding and attention away from the truly effective groups.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
But nobody confuses Harvard Extension School classes with the real thing.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of confuses

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Even fewer have the potential to do something profound and ignite a new narrative about a place that shifts how an entire neighborhood, city, or even a country is preceived from the outside in.

— Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
For California, this typically shifts the winter jet stream farther south, potentially bringing more storms to Southern California, according to NOAA.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of shifts

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Tilling or plowing in the summer disturbs the soil's delicate ecosystem and exposes moist soil to rapid water loss.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
The pier in Michigan City’s Washington Park disturbs the natural flow of sand along the lakeshore, creating new land east of the pier but starving beaches to the west, an erosion problem repeated by other manmade structures that jut out into Lake Michigan.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026

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