verb
- Cause to be lost or disoriented.
- synonyms: disorient, disorientate
adjective
- Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.
- usage: "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
- Socially disoriented.
- usage: "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
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