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• v  cause to be lost or disoriented
• s  having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
  I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway
  the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
• s  socially disoriented

• Hailing from Oxford, this art-rock quintet spins futuristic songs about the disillusioned and the disoriented, about aliens and creepsbut often with a glimmer of hope.
• Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's bizarre, disoriented appearance at a news conference sparked his resignation, but many leaders before him got by unscathed after rather .
• Toward the end, a disoriented Dukakis admitted that he failed to realize that the primaries are nothing like the frenzied finale.

• disorient
• disorientate
• confused
• lost
• alienated
• anomic

• orient

News & Articles

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• Woman run over by mower dies
  Investigators say the woman suffers from dementia.  She was disoriented and wandering in her yard when she fell in some tall grass.
  June 12, 2013 - WDTN-TV 2 Dayton
• Preble County woman hit, killed by brush cutter
  A 74-year-old woman who apparently became disoriented and fell in high weeds was killed Tuesday evening when she was run over by a rotary mower being operated by her husband. “The weeds were to the point he’d never known she was there until she was struck,” Preble County Sheriff Michael Simpson said. “It is our understanding she was on the ground, not able to be seen.” Deputies and a rescue crew ...
  June 11, 2013 - WHIO-TV 7 Dayton
• Disoriented driver's car stalls on train tracks
  Railroad traffic came to a stop in Texarkana Wednesday night after a disoriented driver was spotted cruising on some train tracks.
  June 6, 2013 - KSLA-TV Shreveport

Quotes

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• Christopher Dell in Guardian Unlimited
  He is apparently suffering from some kind of head injuries that have left him disoriented and not clearly focused mentally,Ambassador Christopher Dell said.
• Vladimir Putin in Kyiv Post
  Those who confront us don't want our plan to succeed,Putin said. "They have different plans for Russia: They need a weak and ill state, they need a disoriented and divided society in order to do their deeds behind its back."
• Samuel Alito in Houston Chronicle
  Justice Antonin Scalia was "a little disoriented" and Justice Samuel Alito said "that's pretty incredible."