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Definition of "disoriented" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of disorient. (verb)
  • Having lost one's direction; confused. (adjective)

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Use "disoriented" in a sentence
  • "In certain rare cases keeping a prisoner cold, uncomfortable, frightened, and disoriented is morally justified and necessary; but the danger in acknowledging as much has always been that such abusive treatment will become the norm."
  • "Mark Bowden ( "Lessons of Abu Ghraib," July/August Atlantic) says, "In certain rare cases keeping a prisoner cold, uncomfortable, frightened, and disoriented is morally justified and necessary.""
  • "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."