disorientate
verb
dis·ori·en·tate
(ˌ)dis-ˈȯr-ē-ən-ˌtāt 
-ē-ˌen-
-ē-ˌen-
disorientated; disorientating; disorientates
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Press junkets are never easy—actors are often sat on stools in windowless rooms beneath glaring lights for hours at a time, usually jet-lagged and disorientated while people wearing headphones march in and out with clipboards.
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Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 May 2025
It was designed to disorientate Howe’s man-to-man marking scheme, but Barnes stayed alert and tracked Raya’s long ball — which was overhit anyway.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 20 May 2025
For the other man, meanwhile, those initially disorientating dreams cue a release from the strictures of masculine expectations and self-image, demonstrated through his increasingly liberated performances in a local choir.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
The currents near the dredge channel move fast and can be disorientating.
—airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
Family members who checked on the couple called 911 after finding the man unresponsive in the living room and his girlfriend shivering and disorientated in the bedroom, the fire marshal said.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2024
Eleven rescuers were dispatched to the team who appeared to be disorientated in the Stoneycroft, Newlands and Seathwaite area of the national park in northwestern England.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
Its hallways were disorientating, narrow, windowless and lined with identical-looking doors.
—New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
So when the film's recreation of that same image was projected over the dance floor in Berlin, with party music blasting and a bar serving free-flowing cocktails nearby, many attendees were disorientated, if not disturbed.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020
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Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 May 2025
It was designed to disorientate Howe’s man-to-man marking scheme, but Barnes stayed alert and tracked Raya’s long ball — which was overhit anyway.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 20 May 2025
For the other man, meanwhile, those initially disorientating dreams cue a release from the strictures of masculine expectations and self-image, demonstrated through his increasingly liberated performances in a local choir.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
The currents near the dredge channel move fast and can be disorientating.
—airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
Family members who checked on the couple called 911 after finding the man unresponsive in the living room and his girlfriend shivering and disorientated in the bedroom, the fire marshal said.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2024
Eleven rescuers were dispatched to the team who appeared to be disorientated in the Stoneycroft, Newlands and Seathwaite area of the national park in northwestern England.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
Its hallways were disorientating, narrow, windowless and lined with identical-looking doors.
—New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
So when the film's recreation of that same image was projected over the dance floor in Berlin, with party music blasting and a bar serving free-flowing cocktails nearby, many attendees were disorientated, if not disturbed.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020
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“Disorientate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disorientate. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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