disorientate
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from disorientation.
Verb edit
disorientate (third-person singular simple present disorientates, present participle disorientating, simple past and past participle disorientated)
- Alternative form of disorient
- 1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, page 254:
- 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.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to cause to lose orientation or direction — see also disorient
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Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
disorientate
- inflection of disorientare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
disorientate f pl