Definition of "disorientate"

disorientate

verb
third-person singular simple present disorientates, present participle disorientating, simple past and past participle disorientated
1. Alternative form of disorient
  Quotations
  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.
  1941, Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy, page 254