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US
/dɪˈsɔɹiˌɛntɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɪsˈɔːɹiəntɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɔːɹiəntɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting
making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting
How To Use disorienting In A Sentence
- The bar is a seething mass of bodies writhing to the disorienting beat.
- The poems come to us across a great chronological and cultural divide, and the reader is reminded of this fact by the occasional archaic word and by the unusual compounding, both of which impart a faintly disorienting tone.
- And then it goes one step further: 99% of the curse words and sexual references are removed in odd, disorienting edits.
- Kyle and Louis, their hosts for the night, were indeed upstairs, in a paneled private room, reached after a long and disorienting trek through the interior of the club, across parqueted dining rooms, past bars and rest rooms, up two half flights of stairs that bookended a golden little cigar lounge. The Deed
- This proved a good area to go to escape a disorienting white-out on the upper slopes, as did Arc 1600.
- It's Benjamin Button's ugly brother showing his reality through his own kind of disorienting cinematic dreamscape. Kim Morgan: Charlie Kaufman Is A Humble Genius. 'Synecdoche' At Ebertfest
- Some light crackling noises and loud pops are disorienting and prevent me from giving a higher score.
- The lush and extravagant countryside, the somnolent seriousness of the army base and the intense, heavy sunlight had been most disorienting.
- Here, however, it came to be another old and enduring track through otherwise treacherous and disorienting terrain, a variation of path and trace.
- We didn't realise it was a real place. the scale of the gallery is a bit disorienting at first and I've tried to reflect this by tilting the image slightly. Archive 2007-06-01