Misorientate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction. transitive

    "Sometimes I would misorientate slides 90 degrees or 180 degrees."

  2. 2
    To become incorrectly positioned, especially to face in the wrong direction. intransitive

    "The price system does not signal the changes continually taking place in the value and market relations; it necessarily misorientates in matters of economic decisions."

  3. 3
    To become confused about one's position relative to one's environment; to become disoriented. reflexive

    "It is poetic justice of sorts that the church whose foreign agents and those indigenous members who chose to misorientate themselves has also given us these […]"

Synonyms

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misorientmisposition

Example

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"Sometimes I would misorientate slides 90 degrees or 180 degrees."

Etymology

From mis- + orientate.

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