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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
Recent Examples of disorient from the Web
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For lobbyists and policy analysts on both sides of the aisle, that makes the funding lapse especially disorienting.
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This assertive message salvages the film's sprawling final third, in which Gozum and his editors Epoy Deyto and Carla Pulido Ocampo make disorienting jumps between the three parts.
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There’s an undeniable boldness and heroism about this, yet the striking — and perhaps disorienting — thing about Bullock’s recital, presented by Cal Performances, was how soft-edged the whole affair was.
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In March 2017, Lynne Hybels wrote to Leanne Mellado, saying she had been shocked and disoriented by the allegation of an affair, and had eventually talked with the woman whom Mellado said made the claim.
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While many of the works were empowering — Black Power images from the 1970s, portraits of civil rights leaders — others were confrontational, disorienting and depressing: cartoonish, insensitive caricatures used for advertising or entertainment.
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The book opens with a dead man running through the snow, bloodied and disoriented.
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Deep and disorienting distrust reigns over civic life where good faith and clean conscience ought to rule.
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But by sticking closely to a heroine who's skating on the edge of sanity, the film keeps the audience properly disoriented.
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Origin and Etymology of disorient
First Known Use: 1655
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yeardisorient Synonyms
Synonyms
addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, buffalo, confound, confuse, discombobulate, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, maze, muddle, muddy, mystify, perplex, puzzle, vex;
Related Words
abash, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattle;
agitate, bother, chagrin, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturb, perturb, stun, unhinge, unsettle, upset;
beguile, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, misguide, mislead, snow, string along, take in, trick;
Phrases
blow one's mind, go to one's head;
DISORIENT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of disorient for English Language Learners
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: to make (someone) lost or confused
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of disorient
- the next day the patient was disoriented but not comatose
- —Journal of the American Medical Association
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