Disorient

Definition: Disorient

Disorient

Verb

1. Cause to be lost or disoriented.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Disorient \Dis*o"ri*ent\, transitive verb. To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Disorient

Don't let the absence of a salad bar disorient you. (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty)

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Periodicals

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Human Rights

Burma

The Government routinely subjected detainees to harsh interrogation techniques designed to intimidate and disorient. (references)

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Albanian

shastis (abash, discountenance, disorientate, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, wilder), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), hutoj (abash, baffle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dash, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disorientate, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, pose, puzzle, wilder), çorodit (bamboozle, disorientate, pervert, pose), çorodis (bamboozle, disorientate, pervert, pose), çorientoj (disorientate, mislead). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заблуждавам (abuse, deceive, delude, disorientate, flim-flam, impose, misguide, mislead, mystify, outwit, stuff), дезориентирам (disorientate). (various references)

German

desorientieren, verwirren (befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dazzle, disarrange, entangle, fluster, fuddle, jumble, muddle, muddle up, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, perplex, perturb, puzzle, Ravel, ruffle, ruffle up, tangle, tangle up, to confuse, to derange, to disarrange, to discombobulate, to disconcert, to dishevel, to disorient, to distract, to embarrass, to fluster, tousle, unsettle). (various references)

Hungarian

megzavar (bedazzle, dash, disorientate, distract, embarrass, perplex, pervert, queer, to addle, to amaze, to baffle, to bowl over, to clog, to confound, to disarray, to disconcert, to dislocate, to dismay, to disorientate, to distract, to fluster, to muddy, to perplex, to perturb, to put off, to stultify, to throw out, to unsettle, to wake, unsettle). (various references)

Italian

disorientare (bewilder, bother, confuse, disconcert, disorientate, get confused, mystify). (various references)

Pig Latin

isorientday

Portuguese

desorganizar (disarrange, disarray, dislocation, overset, translocate, upset). (various references)

Russian 

дезориентировать (disorientate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dezorijentisati (disorientate). (various references)

Spanish

desorientar (detune, disorientate, mystify, throw out). (various references)

Swedish

desorientera (disorientate), förvirra (addle, baffle, bamboozle, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, disorientate, distract, dizzy, embarrass, flummox, flurry, fluster, fuddle, gravel, Kittle, perplex, unsettle, upset). (various references)

Turkish

yolunu kaybettirmek, yönünü şaşırtmak (disorientate), kafasını karıştırmak (bedevil, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, derange, mix up, obfuscate, perturb, puzzle), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "disorient": disorientate, disorientated, disorientates, disorientating, disorientation, disorientations, disoriented, disorienting, disorients. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disorient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dinorben, Disprin, misorient. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: retinoids.

-1 letter: derision, diorites, disinter, editions, inditers, ironside, nitrides, resinoid, retinoid, sedition.

-2 letters: dineros, dinitro, diorite, dirties, ditsier, edition, editors, inditer, indites, indorse, inosite, insider, iodines, ionised, ironies, ironist, nitride, nitrids, noisier, norites, oestrin, ordines, orients, rodents, rosined, snorted, sordine, sordini, sortied, steroid, stonier, storied, tidiers, tinders, tineids, triodes.

-3 letters: dinero, diners, direst, donsie, dories.

+1 letter: detritions, directions, discretion, disorients, eruditions, ironfisted, perditions, reeditions, renditions.

+2 letters: derivations, description, discretions, disoriented, disrelation, misoriented, modernistic, modernities, ordinariest, predictions, redigestion, rotundities, tyrocidines.

+3 letters: codirections, conditioners, denigrations, deprivations, derelictions, descriptions, desideration, dictionaries, dilatoriness, disorientate, disorienting, disrelations, disseminator, dissertation, diversionist, doctrinaires, dominatrices, dominatrixes, endocarditis, endometritis, eradications, extraditions, indirections, indiscretion, interdictors, interiorised, misdirection, orotundities, overstriding, periodontics, periodontist, predications, predigestion, profundities, rationalised, reconditions, redepositing, redigestions, redirections, reductionism, reductionist, remediations, reoxidations, repositioned, repudiations, reradiations, rodenticides, romanticised, tenebrionids, trepidations.

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