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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disorient .
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Examples
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The three meter board, being blindfolded kind of disorients the body like a night time environment. "
The Parthenon 2009
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It disorients the AI, making enemies forget about you and focus on saving their own skin.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ben Abraham 2009
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My usual "the child is gone; this disorients me, so I must clean frantically" thing.
Thor's Day dkollin 2009
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It disorients the AI, making enemies forget about you and focus on saving their own skin.
How To Kill People More Effectively In Far Cry 2 Ben Abraham 2009
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That practice not only showers the sky with excess photons, it also wastes electricity and disorients night-flying birds, which have crashed fatally into illuminated structures in a phenomenon known as tower kill.
Want to see better? We'd have to turn out the lights. Ben Harder 2010
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The paradigm imposed, usually by a particular media view, completely disorients the proper analysis.
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"Georgian police used an acoustic gun -- it's a non-lethal weapon that disorients people for a period of time," says one "special weapons expert."
Boing Boing 2007
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When one reads LORD OF THE RINGS or WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, one steps into a secondary world of the author's creation, and this disorients those not used to it.
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A stun grenade produces a sensory overload with a loud bang and a brilliant flash which disorients and confuses persons nearby.
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A confounding climax that disorients the viewer, and not in a good way.
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