dislodgment

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“These successful operations have culminated in the dislodgment of terrorists from towns and communities in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states,” military spokesman Chris Olukolade told the BBC.

From Time • Mar. 27, 2015

Against the strong but supply-vulnerable Italian forces in the Duke's domain, Britain planned not a campaign of forcible dislodgment but one of attrition from without and harassment from within.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having thus partly turned the Confederate position on our left, Sherman hoped that McPherson might complete their dislodgment by a similar flanking movement through Dallas on our right.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

Stooping down, he groped diligently by his right foot, but was aware of nothing but a crabbed stump, that resisted every attempt they could use for its dislodgment.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John