dislodge

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Surely if I make an effort to dislodge, the river will start moving again.

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  1. transitive verb To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
  2. intransitive verb To move or go from a dwelling or former position.

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  • It's very hard to dislodge, so the rain couldn't wash out its memory. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • The tenant then went back into possession as a caretaker, whom nobody dared dislodge, and he promptly went to the Tralee Board of Guardians to obtain a pound a week as an evicted tenant. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • I ripped my jeans and cut my thigh on a scrap of glass I had failed to dislodge, then pushed two cups and a plate off the draining board to shatter on the kitchen floor, but at least I was home. —  Scoundrel by Bernard Cornwell
  • The Bretons on the east of Foch's line were obliged to dislodge, and the Moroccans and Forty-second Division had to yield on Foch's left. —  Foch the Man
  • That is, if the tide doesn't dislodge the whale and move it tonight.
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  1. Middle English disloggen, from Old French deslogier : des-, dis- + logier, to lodge (from loge, shed, of Germanic origin).

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  1. from Old French desloger, French déloger (= Italian disloggiare, diloggiare, sloggiare; Middle Latin dislogiare), from des- privative + loger, lodge: see lodge.
 

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/dɪsˈlɑdʒ/
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