disorientate

disorientate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from disorientation.

Verb

disorientate (third-person singular simple present disorientates, present participle disorientating, simple past and past participle disorientated)

1. Alternative form of disorient
   • 1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, p254

     Ideas often disorientate a system which has been formed on a particular pattern and make it inapplicable; so ideas may lead to the readjustment of groups and sometimes of political boundaries.

Derived terms

• disorientation

Translations

to cause to lose orientation or direction

Finnish: eksyttää (fi), harhauttaa (fi) Icelandic: rugla í ríminu, gera ringlaðan, láta tapa áttum, gera áttavilltan

Russian: дезориентировать (ru) (dezorijentirovatʹ) Serbo-Croatian: dezorijentírati (sh)

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Italian

Verb

disorientate

1. second-person plural present indicative of disorientare
2. second-person plural imperative of disorientare
3. feminine plural of disorientato