"disorient" meaning in English

See disorient in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disorient.wav [Southern-England] Forms: disorients [present, singular, third-person], disorienting [participle, present], disoriented [participle, past], disoriented [past]
Etymology: From French désorienter. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|désorienter}} French désorienter Head templates: {{en-verb}} disorient (third-person singular simple present disorients, present participle disorienting, simple past and past participle disoriented)
  1. To cause to lose orientation or direction.
    Sense id: en-disorient-en-verb-Krwllphl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27
  2. To confuse or befuddle.
    Sense id: en-disorient-en-verb-RXOKxrOZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: disorientate Translations: разориентирам (razorientiram) (Bulgarian), обърквам (obǎrkvam) (Bulgarian), désorienter (French), desorientieren (German), verwirren (German), összezavar (Hungarian), félrevezet (Hungarian), eltérít (Hungarian), dezorientál (Hungarian), rugla (Icelandic), rugla í ríminu (Icelandic), gera ringlaðan (Icelandic), láta tapa áttum (Icelandic), villa um fyrir (Icelandic), slá út af laginu (Icelandic), gera áttavilltan (Icelandic), öksyttää (Ingrian), disorientare (Italian), desorientere (Norwegian Bokmål), desorientere (Norwegian Nynorsk), dezorientować [imperfective] (Polish), zdezorientować [perfective] (Polish), dezorijentírati (Serbo-Croatian), desorientar (Spanish), perder el norte (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for disorient meaning in English (3.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "désorienter"
      },
      "expansion": "French désorienter",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French désorienter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disorients",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disorienting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disoriented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disoriented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "disorient (third-person singular simple present disorients, present participle disorienting, simple past and past participle disoriented)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to lose orientation or direction."
      ],
      "id": "en-disorient-en-verb-Krwllphl",
      "links": [
        [
          "orientation",
          "orientation"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To confuse or befuddle."
      ],
      "id": "en-disorient-en-verb-RXOKxrOZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ],
        [
          "befuddle",
          "befuddle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disorient.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "disorientate"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razorientiram",
      "word": "разориентирам"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obǎrkvam",
      "word": "обърквам"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "word": "désorienter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "word": "desorientieren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "word": "verwirren"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "összezavar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "félrevezet"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "eltérít"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "dezorientál"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "rugla"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "rugla í ríminu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "gera ringlaðan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "láta tapa áttum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "villa um fyrir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "slá út af laginu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "gera áttavilltan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "word": "öksyttää"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "word": "disorientare"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "word": "desorientere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "word": "desorientere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dezorientować"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zdezorientować"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "word": "dezorijentírati"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "word": "desorientar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "word": "perder el norte"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disorient"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "désorienter"
      },
      "expansion": "French désorienter",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French désorienter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disorients",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disorienting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disoriented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disoriented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "disorient (third-person singular simple present disorients, present participle disorienting, simple past and past participle disoriented)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to lose orientation or direction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "orientation",
          "orientation"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To confuse or befuddle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ],
        [
          "befuddle",
          "befuddle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disorient.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-disorient.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "disorientate"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razorientiram",
      "word": "разориентирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obǎrkvam",
      "word": "обърквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "word": "désorienter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "word": "desorientieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "word": "verwirren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "összezavar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "félrevezet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "eltérít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "word": "dezorientál"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "rugla"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "rugla í ríminu"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "gera ringlaðan"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "láta tapa áttum"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "villa um fyrir"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "slá út af laginu"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "word": "gera áttavilltan"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "word": "öksyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "word": "disorientare"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "word": "desorientere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "word": "desorientere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dezorientować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zdezorientować"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "word": "dezorijentírati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "word": "desorientar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "word": "perder el norte"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disorient"
}
{
  "called_from": "page/2517",
  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'to cause to lose orientation or direction', 2: 'disorientate'}",
  "path": [
    "disorient",
    "trans-top-see"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "disorient",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.