Dislodges mixed nuts, swallowing large amount of water (7)
I believe the answer is:
unseats
'dislodges' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'mixed nuts swallowing large amount of water' is the wordplay.
'mixed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'swallowing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'large amount of water' becomes 'sea'.
'nuts' anagrammed gives 'unts'.
'unts' enclosing 'sea' is 'UNSEATS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unseats that I've seen before include "Puts out of the saddle" , "Removes (someone) from a position of power" , "Drives from power or office during a sunset" , "Dislodges rider or TD at election" , "Throws" .)