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Meanings of disorienting in English

Causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings.

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Usage of disorienting in English
1
HBO darlings Westworld and Watchmen both use music to similarly disorienting effect.
Wired
2
Time for the sheer disorienting scale of the achievement to sink in.
The Irish Times
3
It's shocking and disorienting enough when it happens in the Little Court.
Pegasus
4
It was disorienting to hear that danger could infiltrate their valley lives.
Rock and Ice Magazine
5
It was the interruption of his thought processes, unpleasant, disorienting, and lingering.
The Thursday War
6
Even knowing all that, Thandi still found the situation a little disorienting.
Cauldron of Ghosts
7
The view through its eyes was disorienting, misty, and kept shifting about.
Thief of lives
8
A tie would have had a disorienting impact on the younger man.
Anthill: a novel
9
Gregg Alton has what seems like a disorienting job at Gilead Sciences.
The Irish Times
10
Everything in my head shook with need for her; it was disorienting.
Beautiful Bitch
11
Given how profoundly these differences shape our identities, this view can be disorienting.
Wired
12
It was a profoundly disorienting form of culture shock, literally dizzying.
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
13
Such affecting, disturbing, disorienting sculpture cannot stand on the margins of art history.
BBC
14
My words came slapping back at me in a disorienting echo.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
15
The effect, of this singularly beautiful thing somehow multiplied, was disorienting.
BBC
16
Now it was growing late again, and cooler, which the nurse found disorienting.
Dreadnought
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common