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DISORIENTATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disorientate mean?
• DISORIENTATE (verb)
The verb DISORIENTATE has 1 sense:
1. cause to be lost or disoriented
Familiarity information: DISORIENTATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they disorientate ... he / she / it disorientates
Past simple: disorientated
Past participle: disorientated
-ing form: disorientating
... he / she / it disorientates Past simple: disorientated
Past participle: disorientated
-ing form: disorientating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to be lost or disoriented
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
disorient; disorientate
Hypernyms (to "disorientate" 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
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