disorient

• disorientate (sometimes proscribed)

Borrowed from French désorienter.

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/

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disorient (third-person singular simple present disorients, present participle disorienting, simple past and past participle disoriented)

1. To cause to lose orientation or direction.
2. To confuse or befuddle.

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