disorient
Example Sentences
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Young patrons in the bar, disoriented by the smoke and panic, tried to escape through the front door, causing a crush at the exit.
From Barron's
It is hard to believe that it’s been a full decade since Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s last feature film, 2016’s “The Neon Demon,” a disorienting treatise on fame and Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times
When Carman has tried to reduce her dose, she said, her body aches, she feels desperately tired and she becomes disoriented.
The smash-up of the fantastical and the familiar is disorienting and gets even stranger when the reckless kids start to whoop like they’re on Muscle Beach.
From Los Angeles Times
Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
