dislodge
Americanverb (used with object)
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dislodges,
present (3rd person singular)
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dislodged,
past participle, past
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dislodging
present participle
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to remove or force out of a particular place.
to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
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to drive out of a hiding place, a military position, etc.
verb (used without object)
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dislodges,
present (3rd person singular)
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dislodged,
past participle, past
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dislodging
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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dislodgesimple
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dislodgessimple
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have dislodgedperfect
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has dislodgedperfect
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am dislodgingprogressive
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are dislodgingprogressive
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is dislodgingprogressive
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have been dislodgingperfect progressive
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has been dislodgingperfect progressive
Past
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dislodgedsimple
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had dislodgedperfect
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was dislodgingprogressive
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were dislodgingprogressive
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had been dislodgingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of dislodge
1400–50; late Middle English disloggen < Old French desloger, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + loger to lodge
Explanation
To dislodge is to remove something. When you're choking, you need to dislodge the food from your throat. When you dislodge, you're moving something from its current position. When sumo wrestlers are going at it, they're trying to dislodge each other from their original positions. Anytime something is stuck and you want it out, it needs to be dislodged. When you're choking, food is lodged in your windpipe. That's a time when you need to dislodge quickly!
Vocabulary lists containing dislodge
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Example Sentences
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That is better than the 46.3 balls it took to dislodge somebody under Stokes but far behind the 69.5 balls Strauss' side soaked up.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
However, unlike in 2023 and earlier this year, it’s been tougher to quickly dislodge 5% 30-year Treasury yields once they hit, as the below chart shows.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the window to dislodge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Boon accused the gangs of keeping local populations in a state of "modern-day slavery" and said strong political will would be required to dislodge them.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Sent on a space walk to assess damage, Jo dislodges what appears to be the desiccated body of a woman in the suit of Russian cosmonaut, circa late 1960s, which shoots from her grasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
The constant freezing and thawing of water in icy temperatures weakens the structure of the road and material eventually dislodges with the movement of vehicles, causing holes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
“PTSD . . . dislodges you from the weird tyranny of linear time.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2020
If Brexit dislodges Eastern European workers, though, he frets that his labor costs could soar by as much as 30 percent.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
We all feel the moment when the ferry dislodges from the pier.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Most of those dislodged from the town centers probably relocated elsewhere in the desert, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
In a statement, Ryanair said its Friday morning flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen returned "shortly after take-off when a passenger window dislodged in flight".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Ryanair flight had climbed to 16,000 feet before turning back to land, after an engine issue led to a dislodged window and a passenger getting partially pulled through the opening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The utility company told US media that, after reviewing video footage, they believe the cover of the manhole was dislodged by a truck.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
He dislodged it from his waist and placed it in the corner.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
On an untreated surface, dislodging a sulfur atom requires about 30 electron volts.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
South of Khartoum, the RSF has pushed through the Kordofan region, after dislodging the army from its last stronghold in Darfur last year.
From Barron's ● Jan. 11, 2026
“Our arson investigators have determined the most likely cause of the Mountain fire was extreme winds dislodging a pocket of covered hot tire debris from an earlier fire,” Gardner said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
You’ll recall Texas A&M dislodging itself from Jimbo Fisher in 2023 for a comical $75 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
He pecks for a moment at the scarecrow’s pole that rises in the center of the whirlpool eye, dislodging a tiny phosphorescent sea slug and devouring it.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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