disorient

Frank, full of character and occasionally disorienting, this collection of his work is a joyful depiction of a uniquely American quirk.

I jump toward the fence as well, trying to clear it in one bound—but only succeed in flying into it with a painful, disorienting WHAM!

Understand that she was more than a little disoriented, for she had taken quite a tumble.

“Dissociative” is a decent descriptor for Isella’s music, too — disorienting, unnerving, drawing out emotions you might not understand.

To an outsider, this torrent of picayune detail about the financial markets would have been disorienting.