disorientate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from disorientation.

Verb

disorientate (third-person singular simple present disorientates, present participle disorientating, simple past and past participle disorientated)

1. 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

• disorientation

Translations

to cause to lose orientation or direction — see also disorient

• Finnish: eksyttää (fi), harhauttaa (fi)
• Icelandic: rugla í ríminu, gera ringlaðan, láta tapa áttum, gera áttavilltan
• Ingrian: öksyttää
• Russian: дезориентировать (ru) (dezorijentirovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: dezorijentírati (sh)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

disorientate

1. inflection of disorientare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

disorientate f pl

1. feminine plural of disorientato