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disorients

  • present tense form
    of disorient (3rd person singular).
    disorient
    verb (used with object)
    to cause to lose one's way.

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Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

The narration further disorients us by alternating between Marissa’s third-person and Avery’s first-person perspectives.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020

Rip has been given an impossible gift, though it is one that disorients him.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020

The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins