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What is another word for disorienting?

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Adjective

Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling

Causing one to feel dazed or disoriented

Verb

Present participle for to cause to lose orientation or direction

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Adjective

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Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling

difficult to understand

full of twists and turns

impossible to understand

not easily understood

gray^US

grey^UK

ravelled^UK

too hard to understand

too difficult to understand

raveled^US

laboured^UK

labored^US

skilful^UK

skillful^US

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Adjective

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Causing one to feel dazed or disoriented

Verb

Present participle for to cause to lose orientation or direction

making someone scratch their head

mixing up

flabbergasting

causing to be at a stand

setting someone thinking

balking^US

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

setting someone back on their heels

putting someone off their stride

distracting from

making your head spin

putting out of countenance

putting someone off their stroke

causing to lose your bearings

thwarting

stumbling

messing with one's head

filling with wonder

filling with amazement

upsetting the applecart

fouling up

jumbling

ravelling^UK

raveling^US

making more difficult

knocking the stuffing out of

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

taking your breath away

causing someone to lose their composure

picking on

weighing down

frighting

taking the wind out of your sails

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

benumbing

throwing into a tizzy

paralysing^UK

making self-conscious

paralyzing^US

scaring the bejesus out of

pulling the rug from under

pushing buttons

making one's hair stand on end

scaring off

making teeth chatter

pulling the rug out from under

making one's blood run cold

making miserable

making wretched

weighing on

hurting somebody's feelings

cutting to the quick

rankling with

putting one away

making someone jump out of their skin

causing anxiety

giving a shock

knocking over with feather

knocking over

causing concern to

causing discomfort to

galvanizing^US

blinding someone with something

scaring the daylights out of

stimulating

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

galvanising^UK

giving someone a jolt

giving someone a fright

getting on one's nerves

tantalising^UK

tantalizing^US

breaking the heart of

shattering the illusions of

dampening the spirits of

dashing hopes

bullyragging

raising someone's eyebrows

teasing

hitting like ton of bricks

completely surprising

shaking out of your complacency

tyrannizing^US

rubbing up the wrong way

putting your back up

giving offence

putting down

putting someone's nose out of joint

causing offense

turning off

treading on someone's toes

scaring the pants off

hazing

booing

giving someone goose pimples

dashing

tyrannising^UK

scaring someone out of their wits

scaring the living daylights out of

giving someone the heebie-jeebies

chilling to the marrow

putting the fear of God into

throwing into a blue funk

making insane

driving mad

throwing into a fright

pushing around

making one's flesh creep

giving one the creeps

chivying

scaring someone half to death

filling with consternation

messing up

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“All this artful excess seems intended to disorient and disinhibit guests descending from the busy theater district above.”

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