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Dropoff vs Dislodge - What's the difference?

dropoff | dislodge |

As a noun dropoff

is .

As a verb dislodge is

to remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.

dropoff

English

Noun

(en noun)
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    dislodge

    English

    Verb

    (dislodg)
  • To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • *:Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
  • To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
  • * Milton
  • Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns.
  • (figurative) To force out of a secure or settled position.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.}}