Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To turn from the east; throw out of direction with respect to the east.
- To confuse as to direction in general; cause to lose one's bearings.
- Figuratively, to cause to lose the knowledge of the direction in which the truth lies; cause to lose one's reckoning with respect to the truth: the east being taken metaphorically for the truth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To turn away from the east; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
- transitive verb to cause (a person) to lose one's sense of direction; to cause to lose one's bearings or way.
- transitive verb (Psychiatry) to cause one to lose one's sense of time or place, or of one's own personal identity.
- transitive verb to confuse (a person) by changing or removing something which has served as a standard or guide to action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cause to lose
orientation ordirection . - verb To
confuse orbefuddle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to be lost or disoriented
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Examples
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting?
Balkinization 2007
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