disorientate

[US]/dis'ɔ:rienteit/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. cause to lose one's sense of direction.
Word Forms
Present Participledisorientating
Past Participledisorientated
Third Person Singulardisorientates
Pluraldisorientates

Example Sentences

These deliver blurred vision, holographs and so on to disorientate the target and/or experiment;victims' reactions being monitored to study how best to "control" targets.

Father worked as a teacher for almost 40 years, and has been disorientated since he stopped working.

Real-world Examples

After releasing a statement last week via police, saying the whole episode had been disorientating, Yulia Skripal has now being discharged.

Source: BBC Listening Collection April 2018

" The risk is that you disorientate audiences, " says Farid Rahi, CEO of Opera Lebanon (itself founded in 2015).

Source: The Economist (Summary)

But the biting whale had a unique weapon the Megalodon didn't have - sonar that could disorientate and even kill.

Source: Jurassic Fight Club

It is a disorientating state of affairs.

Source: Economist Finance and economics

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