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dis·o·ri·ent

(dĭs-ôr′ē-ĕnt′)

tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents

To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation.

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Adj.	1.	disoriented - 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" lost, confused unoriented - not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained; "engaged in unoriented study"; "unoriented until she looked at the map"
	2.	disoriented - socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" alienated, anomic unoriented - not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained; "engaged in unoriented study"; "unoriented until she looked at the map"

disoriented

adjective

Unable to find the correct way or place to go:

astray, lost, stray.

Translations

déboussolé

labile

disoriented

a. desorientado-a; confundido-a, confuso-a.

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disoriented

adj desorientado

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An inquiry into a passenger plane crash in southern India in May that claimed 158 lives has concluded that the pilot, who slept through over half the flight and woke up disoriented, was at fault, according to a media report Wednesday.

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Strong shear forces are a reasonable mechanism for how plankton might become disoriented, he says, "but it's a big extrapolation from the lab to the ocean." Sharp changes in current velocity across distances smaller than a microbe would likely cause turbulence that would rip such layers apart almost as quickly as they could form, he notes.

Physics can unite phytoplankton: ocean's version of wind shear disorients marine microbes

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