disorientate

Etymology

Back-formation from disorientation.

verb

  1. Alternative form of disorient
    Ideas often disorientate a system which has been formed on a particular pattern and make it inapplicable; so ideas may lead to the readjustment of groups and sometimes of political boundaries. 1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, page 254

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