Usually means: Cause to lose sense of direction.
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  1. disorient: Merriam-Webster
  2. disorient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disorient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disorient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disorient: Vocabulary.com
  6. disorient: Wordnik
  7. disorient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disorient: Wiktionary
  9. disorient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disorient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disorient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disorient: Dictionary.com
  13. disorient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disorient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disorient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disorient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disorient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disorient: Rhymezone
  19. Disorient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disorient: FreeDictionary.org
  21. disorient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. disorient: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disorient: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. disorient: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Disorient: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. disorient: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disorient)

▸ verb:  To cause to lose orientation or direction.
▸ verb:  To confuse or befuddle.

Similar:
disorientate, misorientate, dislocate, lose one's bearings, get turned around, lose one's way, bewilder, discompose, unshape, disrupt, more...

Opposite:
orient, orientate, reorient

Types:
vertigo, dizziness, motion sickness, nausea, sea sickness, air sickness, more...
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Similar:
disorientate, misorientate, dislocate, lose one's bearings, get turned around, lose one's way, bewilder, discompose, unshape, disrupt, more...

Opposite:
orient, orientate, reorient

Types:
vertigo, dizziness, motion sickness, nausea, sea sickness, air sickness, more...



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