DISLODGING Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

dislodging

verb

present participle of dislodge

as in removing

to forcefully take (something or someone) away from a place or position The earthquake dislodged several boulders from the cliff. He kicked at the stone to dislodge it.

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Recent Examples of dislodging Beijing has made major economic inroads across South America in recent decades, dislodging the US to become the region’s biggest trading partner. —

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Add on an ear cleaning for 168 renminbi, a service that involves dislodging earwax with a tuning fork. —

Erin Vivid Riley, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026 Easier, maybe, to imagine Blume rejecting the general proposition of an author biography, which seeks to root a subject’s work in their specific experiences, dislodging them from a supposedly neutral or unmarked position. —

Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026 Easier, maybe, to imagine Blume rejecting the general proposition of an author biography, which seeks to root a subject’s work in their specific experiences, dislodging them from a supposedly neutral or unmarked position. —

Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026 By 1997’s The Cry, the first album released under his Placid Angles moniker, Beltran had drifted even further into new-age sounds, the beats dislodging themselves and seemingly hanging in mid-air. —

Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026 To avoid dislodging lightweight seeds, water seeds and young seedlings with a spray bottle and then transition to a watering can as the seedlings grow. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026 In 2024, Jeep managed to shock the industry by dislodging the Escalade from first place with combined Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer sales of more than 55,000 units, to Cadillac’s 42,000. —

Byron Hurd, The Drive, 8 Jan. 2026 Always work in a vertical cleaning motion to prevent dislodging a wallpaper seam. —

Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025

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Allow these to regrow and form new plants after removing all the dead.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2026
On Saturday, that included removing Jake LaRavia from the rotation entirely as rookie forward Adou Thiero became the Lakers’ third player off the bench and veteran big man Maxi Kleber moved into the rotation as the ninth option.

— Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 10 May 2026