MEANING
To make someone lose a clear sense of direction or situation.
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Words that belong together
- disorient a traveler
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The repeated corridors disoriented him.
The sudden light disoriented the pilot.
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Word forms
- Base
- disorient
- Past tense
- disoriented
- Past participle
- disoriented
- Present participle
- disorienting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disorient
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disorienting
- Present perfect
- have/has disoriented
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disorienting
- Past
- disoriented
- Past continuous
- was/were disorienting
- Past perfect
- had disoriented
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disorienting
- Future
- will disorient
- Future continuous
- will be disorienting
- Future perfect
- will have disoriented
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disorienting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: disorient; disorients; disoriented; disoriented; disorienting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: disorients.
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