What is the difference between disorientate and bewilder?
disorientate | bewilder |
* 1941 , Frederic William Eggleston, Search for a Social Philosophy , p254
(label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
(label) To disorientate someone.
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As verbs the difference between disorientate and bewilder
is that disorientate is (disorient) while bewilder is to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.disorientate
English
Verb
(disorientat)- 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.
