Dislodge: Definition and part of speech

Dislodge

  1. n. Dwelling apart; separation.
  2. v. t. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.
  3. v. t. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.
  4. v. i. To go from a place of rest.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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