disorient

English

Alternative forms

• disorientate (sometimes proscribed)

Etymology

From French désorienter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

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.

Translations

to cause to lose orientation or direction

• Bulgarian: разориентирам (razorientiram), обърквам (bg) (obǎrkvam)
• Finnish: eksyttää (fi), harhauttaa (fi)
• French: désorienter (fr)
• German: desorientieren, verwirren (de)
• Hungarian: összezavar (hu), félrevezet (hu), eltérít (hu), dezorientál (hu)
• Icelandic: rugla, rugla í ríminu, gera ringlaðan, láta tapa áttum, villa um fyrir, slá út af laginu, gera áttavilltan
• Ingrian: öksyttää
• Italian: disorientare (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: desorientere

  Nynorsk: desorientere

• Polish: dezorientować impf, zdezorientować (pl) pf
• Russian: дезориенти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (dezorijentírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: dezorijentírati (sh)
• Spanish: desorientar (es), perder el norte

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