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English
Etymology
From French désorienter.
Pronunciation
Verb
disorient (third-person singular simple present disorients, present participle disorienting, simple past and past participle disoriented)
- To cause to lose orientation or direction.
- 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: дезориентировать (ru) (dezorijentirovatʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: dezorijentírati (sh)
- Spanish: desorientar (es), perder el norte
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