disorientate

Back-formation from disorientation.

disorientate (third-person singular simple present disorientates, present participle disorientating, simple past and past participle disorientated)

1. Alternative form of disorient
   • 1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, page 254:

     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.

• disorientation

disorientate

1. inflection of disorientare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

disorientate f pl

1. feminine plural of disorientato