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n. - Forced removal from a position of advantage.

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  • Their dislodgement was the task allotted to Rommel’s strongest remaining force, the 15th Panzer.
  • Her mouth had bought them an abrupt dislodgement on their arrival.
  • Thomas, or evacuate Boston, and he sent Lord Percy with 3000 men to effect his dislodgement.
  • This expectation was not realized; but Sir Ralph Abercrombie resolved at all hazards to attempt the dislodgement of the French from Egypt.
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