Usage examples (30)

• Bahama Islands had become a rendezvous for pirates, and a few years later, King George the First issued a proclamation for their dislodgment.
• But also other areas, in which fishes -- however they got there: a matter that we'll consider -- remain and dry, or even putrefy, then sometimes falling by atmospheric...
• Panama in a single blast, bring to the steam shovels as much as 75,000 cu.yd. of material, the dislodgment of which by manual labor would have required days of time and...
• If it be low down the gullet, and other means fail, its dislodgment may sometimes be effected by dashing cold water on the spine, or vomiting may be induced by an emetic...