Vocabulary
Dislodge
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
knock or force out of position.
Urdu meaning
نکال دینا، مقررہ جگہ سے ہٹانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- And the upheaval will have to dislodge beneficiaries of the current system to allow reconfiguration.
- According to some media reports there is now a move to dislodge the PTI`s government in KP following questionable allocation of reserved seats that has drastically altered the numbers game in the provincial assembly.
- While the government may be unpopular with the public, and its legitimacy may continue to remain in doubt, its legislative measures have now ensured that it would be difficult to dislodge it.
- His statement stirred much controversy and revived memories of August 2022, when he had used similar statements to dislodge the then finance minister and install himself instead, in a vain bid to bring down the exchange rate.
- The country`s regulatory environment, too, results in high costs and slow decision-making, but the colonial-era bureaucracy is too well-entrenched to dislodge.
Synonyms
remove, move, shift, displace, knock out of place, knock out of position, knock over
Antonyms
stick, deposit, lodge, wedge
Curator example
“the hoofs of their horses dislodged loose stones”
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