dislocating

verb

Definition of dislocatingnext
present participle of dislocate
1
as in relocating
to change the place or position of dislocated his shoulder in the accident

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2
as in disrupting
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 Synonyms for dislocating
  1. relocating
  2. disrupting
  3. removing
  4. shuffling
  5. shifting
  6. transferring
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Jennifer Affleck was struggling with relocating as her husband Zac pursued medical school.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The Filipino community has expanded in recent years, with many relocating from Hawaii and California in response to rising housing prices.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of relocating
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  • Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have successfully achieved standoff through the use of artillery firepower coupled with drone strikes, effectively disrupting their adversary’s offensive operations.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The 50,000 members of the union working at ports from Maine to Texas have been on strike since early Tuesday morning, halting the flow of the majority of containerized imports into the United States, along with many of the exports, disrupting the sales of American businesses overseas.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of disrupting
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  • These could include planting trees, removing asphalt from playgrounds, installing outdoor classrooms and erecting shade structures.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In 1913, after Lane had been removing his patients’ colons for five years, a panel of the Royal Society of Medicine was finally convened to interrogate the wisdom of resorting to surgery to combat chronic constipation.
    Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
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  • Honorable Mentions My Top Five stays the same as my recent mid-September update, but there was shuffling from #6-10 down the home stretch.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • On Monday, about three days after Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, survivors in North Carolina were scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of shuffling
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  • Ronan is the first to admit that an introspective drama about overcoming addiction isn’t the most commercial prospect in an ever-shifting film landscape.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The tempo-shifting track, awash in vocalizations, includes dialogue from Maya Angelou about being a rainbow in someone’s cloud and suddenly, this notable musical excursion makes sense.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of shifting
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  • Logan set about studying every Avett Brothers song, transferring themes and characters to note cards, outlining a draft.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Adopt Federated Machine Learning Adopting federated machine learning allows companies to protect users’ identities by processing data locally, without transferring it to a central server.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of transferring
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