dislocation

dislocation is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
2. noun. The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
3. noun. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
4. noun. the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

   "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"

   "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"

   Synonyms: breakdown

5. noun. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

   Synonyms: disruption

6. noun. a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Synonyms

breakdown, disruption

Common word forms

dislocations

Words from these letters

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