dislocate
verb (used with object)
to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace.
was dislocating
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past progressiveof dislocate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Still, it was dislocating, a moment even weirder than when I had read, in February 1998, all the newspaper headlines reading “Carl Wilson dead.”
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2020
It was dislocating to hear, but the friend's sincerity and basic decency convinced me that I could be wrong.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
The result was dislocating and disconcerting: out of the mouth of babes came a damming view of a self-obsessed adult world, with its vicious quarrels and petty concerns.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2012
The haze, the sweet moist air, the luscious fields, the woods and flowery roads, above all the singing birds—this biting contrast with the dry, blazing desert skies of tawny Egypt was dislocating.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon
Yet the decision was dislocating to all his thought, even as the struggle had been.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
