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Disorientate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of disorient. British, alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes

    "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."

  2. 2
    cause to be lost or disoriented wordnet

Etymology

From dis- + orientate. Not a back-formation from disorientation, which is attested much later and is perhaps from disorientate.

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