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!
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Getting the rotting food off racks towering six stories high required hundreds of workers in protective suits to dislodge the moldering food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
“Reserve currencies are hard to dislodge, particularly without a clear replacement,” Cembalest wrote in a June 23 report.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026
Mr. Warsh needs to dislodge the latter, and one way to do so might be to highlight the former.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
His legs were as though planted in the earth; the shock of the galloping riders could not dislodge him.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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
His foot dislodges a pebble and it falls into the abyss, apparently gone forever.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
In March 2025, Tesla recalled over 46,000 of the vehicles because of concerns that the car’s trim could become dislodged.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Something has to give, and bond selling led to more bond selling as hedge funds and others who had bought into France for the “carry,” or higher yield, were dislodged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Titanium particles can also be dislodged during routine dental cleaning.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
One possibility, a huge possibility, is that the catheter became dislodged from her vein and then was spilling the drugs into the surrounding tissue.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Every time a fat raindrop dislodged itself and went streaking down the glass, it was like a tear in the fabric.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
On an untreated surface, dislodging a sulfur atom requires about 30 electron volts.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Brad Currie put down Kushal Bhurtel with a tough chance off his own bowling before Brad Wheal hit the stumps without dislodging the bails.
From BBC ● Feb. 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
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
The captain swipes the bird off, dislodging several bright feathers, but the parrot is undeterred.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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