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disoriented

[ UK /dɪsˈɔːɹi‍əntɪd/ ]
[ US /dɪˈsɔɹiˌɛntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. socially disoriented
    anomic loners musing over their fate
    we live in an age of rootless alienated people

How To Use disoriented In A Sentence

  • The Wiltschkos showed that pigeons raised without free access to ambient odors are not disoriented when anosmic while their siblings raised with free access to the prevailing wind were disoriented.
  • Daniel wins very big, all the while doing a kind of flippy-floppy hope-and-victory dance that looks like a Saturday Night Live schtick and has Bob Barker in disoriented stitches. Boing Boing: December 28, 2003 - January 3, 2004 Archives
  • Temporarily disoriented and without any immediate answers, on the way toward recovery, she sank into depression.
  • I was fuzzy and disoriented after three weeks of cityhopping.
  • When I became disoriented I knew I was easy prey for her lioness ways.
  • While he was disoriented, I wrested the gun from his grasp and threw it far away.
  • After the birds took flight they would have been completely disoriented and flying at a high rate of speed, "most likely about 25 mph, given my experience with their cousins, the tricolored blackbird," Meese says. Fireworks likely cause of massive Ark. bird kill
  • I just feel kind of dejected and disoriented about a certain boi and a certain trip to a certain foreign country and the certain ramifications that might have on our certain relationship. Tuesday blues
  • Notice the twitchy, disoriented candidate running for re-election who has to be fed lines.
  • One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman.
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