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move or remove by force

The initial effort failed to dislodge the Taliban.

The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space
used dynamite to dislodge the bolder
At first he tried to dislodge it with his hand, but as it was now very tightly wedged he drew a stone-pick out of his pocket, and very carefully and with some trouble got it out.
Anna Sewell -- Black Beauty
As for Tess Durbeyfield, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer;
Joshua 16:9 (NIV)
And then tug by tug he realized he would never be able to dislodge it.
Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun

dislodge = move or remove

Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Pecking now at Joe's hand as he tried to knock it away, holding fast to sleeve and hair, determined not to be dislodged.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
And nothingness whimpered being dislodged from night, and would have hidden again.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
The firebomb dislodged and flew into the Hephaestus chariot at the driver's feet.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
I shook my head and paused in the act of dislodging the shavings which had drifted down my neck.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
She shakes her head like she's trying to dislodge the words from her brain.
Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall
The white batting is fluffed out, exposed, the whole effect of him vapid and dislodged.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Attolia turned her head, dislodging a flower, to stare at Phresine, and Phresine carefully replaced the blossom.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
In his dying convulsions the ax had become dislodged from the wound.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
Cranly dislodged a figseed from his teeth on the point of his rude toothpick and gazed at it intently.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Accordingly a party of adventurers, better suited to the task than the weak though spirited boy, was ordered to dislodge the skulkers.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
When all are gone if I'm alone they can dislodge me.
Homer -- The Odyssey
The magus grinned as I landed on the rocks beside him and I turned to give him what help I could dislodging the bridge.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief

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