Definition of "dislodge"

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.

1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934

In 1955, No. 30783, after a collision with an H15 4-6-0 at Bournemouth in which its right-hand cylinder was dislodged, required very extensive frame renewals.

1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 160

Hinshelwood says he had "the biggest smile on my face for a long time" when he learned no rocks from the 2019 project had been dislodged by the 2020 deluge.

2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 61

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round / Lodge and dislodge by turns.

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

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.

2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎