dislodge

To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.transitive

• 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.
• 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.

To move or go from a dwelling or former position.intransitive

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

To force out of a secure or settled position.figurativelytransitive

• 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 governme