dislodge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

   The new employee dislodged them by moving into their office space.

2. 2
   verb

   remove or force out from a position

   The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums

3. 3
   verb

   To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.

   Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.

4. 4
   verb

   To move or go from a dwelling or former position.

   Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns.

5. 5
   verb

   To force out of a secure or settled position.

   The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.

6. 6
   verb

   change place or direction

Etymology

From Middle English disloggen, from Old French deslogier. Compare French déloger.