Disorient

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  • transitive verb. To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cause to lose orientation or direction.
  • verb. To confuse or befuddle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to be lost or disoriented
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bedevil  befuddle  confound  confuse  discombobulate  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Orient  orient  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anti-a  anti-science  by-pass  comorbid  fasciotomy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    addle  addle the wits  ball up  becloud  bedazzle  
    verb-form
    disoriented  disorienting  disorients  
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