disorient
verb
dis·ori·ent
(ˌ)dis-ˈȯr-ē-ˌent 
disoriented; disorienting; disorients
1
a
: to cause to lose bearings : displace from normal position or relationship
b
: to cause to lose the sense of time, place, or identity
2
: confuse
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Examples of disorient in a Sentence
Thick fog can disorient even an experienced hiker.
troops disoriented by the sudden change in battle plans
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Officials said relatives arrived at the home in the 800 block of South Main Street in North East Wednesday and found the 34-year-old man unresponsive in the living room and the woman and child disoriented.
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Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
As jarring and disorienting as that can feel, just know that the cards say things are happening as they are supposed to.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
But as its two leads burrow themselves in the hunt for a guilty party, their journey turns out to be as dirtied and disorienting as the very systems from which the former Soviet country was weening itself, just a few years after their independence.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
The country as a whole was disoriented, which helped prompt the 1979 revolution and bring Iran’s Islamist regime to power.
—Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
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Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
As jarring and disorienting as that can feel, just know that the cards say things are happening as they are supposed to.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
But as its two leads burrow themselves in the hunt for a guilty party, their journey turns out to be as dirtied and disorienting as the very systems from which the former Soviet country was weening itself, just a few years after their independence.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
The country as a whole was disoriented, which helped prompt the 1979 revolution and bring Iran’s Islamist regime to power.
—Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Disorient.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disorient. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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disorient
verb
dis·ori·ent
(ˈ)dis-ˈōr-ē-ˌent
-ˈȯr-
: to cause to be confused or lost
Medical Definition
disorient
transitive verb
dis·ori·ent
(ˈ)dis-ˈōr-ē-ˌent, -ˈȯr-
: to produce a state of disorientation in : disorientate
the next day the patient was disoriented but not comatose—The Journal of the American Medical Association
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