DISORIENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does disorient mean?

• DISORIENT (verb)
The verb DISORIENT has 1 sense:

1. cause to be lost or disoriented

Familiarity information: DISORIENT used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DISORIENT (verb)

Conjugation:

Present simple: I / you / we / they disorient

... he / she / it disorients

Past simple: disoriented

Past participle: disoriented

-ing form: disorienting

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be lost or disoriented

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

disorient; disorientate

Hypernyms (to "disorient" is one way to...):

bedevil; befuddle; confound; confuse; discombobulate; fox; fuddle; throw (be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

orient (determine one's position with reference to another point)

Derivation:

disorientation (confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction)

Context examples

Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy.

(Fires, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

A mental state in which a person is confused, disoriented, and not able to think or remember clearly.

(Delirium, NCI Dictionary)

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ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:

Disorganized type schizophrenia

Disorganized schizophrenia