dislodge
verb (used with object)
to remove or force out of a particular place.
dislodgment
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a word derived from
dislodge.
Example Sentences
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“These successful operations have culminated in the dislodgment of terrorists from towns and communities in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states,” military spokesman Chris Olukolade told the BBC.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2015
Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against the strong but supply-vulnerable Italian forces in the Duke's domain, Britain planned not a campaign of forcible dislodgment but one of attrition from without and harassment from within.
From Time Magazine Archive
After dislodgment of the pin there was subsidence of the cough and rapid recovery.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The declivity was rough and stony, and the faintest clink or dislodgment of a stone might be enough to rouse those within, wherefore it behoved me to tread carefully.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
