dislodgements

Acts of uprooting

Dislodgements are acts of forcing something out of its position or place.

The word covers both physical removal—dislodgements of boulders during the landslide—and figurative displacement, as when established powers or settled arrangements are upset: The election brought dislodgements throughout the party leadership.

physical

removal

Act of taking away

shifting · uprooting · detachment · ejection · prying · forcing out · pulling out · unseating · dislocation · separation

medical

extraction

Act of removing

implant · joint · fracture · bone · cartilage · retinal · detachment · surgical · dislocation · loosening

political

ousting

Forcible removal from position

unseating · deposing · expulsion · regime change · coup · displacement · power shift · succession · resignation · impeachment

military

ousting

Forcible removal from position

forcing out · displacement · retreat · withdrawal · capture · offensive · siege · invasion · liberation · occupation

geological

erosion

Gradual wearing away

sediment · weathering · collapse · slippage · debris · mudslide · glacial · tectonic · shifting · subsidence

Opposites
positional stability

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Things deposited or fixed

emplacements · installations · placements · fastenings · stationing

integration state

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Learned numerical encodings

insertions · entrenchments · implantations · incorporations · integrations

attachment/embedding

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Learned numerical encodings

implantations · insertions · entrenchments · insets · plantings

Family

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