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Disorient

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To cause to lose orientation or direction.

v. To confuse or befuddle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To turn away from the east; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.

v. to cause (a person) to lose one's sense of direction; to cause to lose one's bearings or way.

v. to cause one to lose one's sense of time or place, or of one's own personal identity.

v. to confuse (a person) by changing or removing something which has served as a standard or guide to action.

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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to be lost or disoriented

Verb Form

disoriented disorienting disorients

Hypernym

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throw fuddle bedevil confound fox

Rhyme

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Orient orient

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