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• v  cause to be lost or disoriented
• a  causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
  making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting
  a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting

• Gdel's astonishing and disorienting discovery, published in 1931, proved that nearly a century of effort by the world's greatest mathematicians was doomed to failure.
• The first few weeks for a novice hostess can be disorienting.
• Somehow we all push through safely, and for a moment we pause inside the stadium, the open space disorienting after such close quarters.

• disorient
• disorientate

• orient
• orienting

News & Articles

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• Kanye West Thinks He's a God; He May Not be Wrong
  Kanye West has become more powerful than anyone could have imagined. After seeing the man in the flesh two nights in a row last week—once at his triumphant, perhaps summer-defining headlining set at Governors Ball, and then at his bizarre, often disorienting Yeezus album listening p...
  June 18, 2013 - The Village Voice
• How James Turrell Knocked the Art World Off Its Feet
  Get ready for a summer of light. Shimmering, disorienting, indescribable light.
  June 13, 2013 - New York Times