What is another word for Dislocating?

Pronunciation: [dɪslə͡ʊkˈe͡ɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Dislocating refers to something that is out of place, disjointed or disturbed. Some synonyms for dislocating include disarranging, disrupting, disjointing, separating, disengaging, and throwing into disarray. To dislocate further implies separating or shifting from a normal position or function, which can also be expressed through terms like destabilizing, unbalancing, disorienting or derailing. Depending on the context, other synonyms may include disconnecting, disturbing, jolting, uprooting, or unsettling. These words help to convey the idea of something being out of position, causing chaos, or creating a sense of uneasiness or instability.

What are the hypernyms for Dislocating?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Dislocating

If, as often happens, the peat is so soft in the wet season as to break on the vertical walls of a ditch and fill it, at the same time Dislocating the mass and spoiling it for cutting, it is best to carry down the ditch in terraces, making it wide above and narrow at the bottom.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson
Not until the declaration of war against Germany, on April 2nd, 1917, did President Wilson venture openly to accuse the official German representatives in America of complicity in these designs, in the following words: "It is unhappily not a matter of conjecture but a fact proved in our courts of justice, that the intrigues which have more than once come perilously near to disturbing the peace and Dislocating the industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of official agents of the Imperial Government accredited to the Government of the United States."
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
And he found it rather Dislocating, this abrupt stepping out of his delightful forest Fairyland....
"A Prisoner in Fairyland"
Algernon Blackwood

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