disoriented

past tense of disorient

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disoriented The driver appeared to be disoriented but conscious at the scene, according to the video posted online by the Pickett family. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2025 Symptoms vary, but can include deer appearing disoriented, showing little to no fear of humans, appearing feverish, having respiratory distress, and pronounced swelling of head, neck, tongue and eyelids. Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025 The bird may become dehydrated or disoriented, and in some cases, lose consciousness and fall from their perches. Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025 In addition to beginning with something that more explicitly resembles the films, this restructuring provides just enough context so that what follows once the ship has crashed in New Siam makes more sense, and is scarier, than if we were disoriented the whole time. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disoriented
Verb
  • But at seven weeks, doctors were already puzzled.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Bill Gross, then-head of Pimco and a true bond market expert, was just as puzzled.
    George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The office had been working with elderly, low-income and disabled people to see what most confused them about SSA processes and what would most help them if these were redesigned.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Forgive some Colorado Avalanche fans if they’re confused by the lack of noise as training camp beckons.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many commenters were baffled no one wanted to match with McBride.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Those are the same factors that left observers baffled by how the fire was handled a month earlier.
    Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For nearly 20 years, astronomers have been perplexed by the strange disk of dust and debris circling Fomalhaut, a bright star just 25 light-years from Earth.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Many historians have been perplexed by how such a seemingly simple man as Shakespeare could have written works of such grandeur and depth.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Disoriented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disoriented. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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