misorientating

Verb

misorientate (third-person singular simple present misorientates, present participle misorientating, simple past and past participle misorientated)

1. (transitive) To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction.
   • Sometimes I would misorientate slides 90 degrees or 180 degrees.1974, Keith Copeland, Aids for the Severely Handicapped, page 99
2. (intransitive) To become incorrectly positioned, especially to face in the wrong direction.
   • The price system does not signal the changes continually taking place in the value and market relations; it necessarily misorientates in matters of economic decisions.1973, Béla Csikós Nagy, Socialist Economic Policy, page 44
3. (reflexive) To become confused about one's position relative to one's environment; to become disoriented.
   • It is poetic justice of sorts that the church whose foreign agents and those indigenous members who chose to misorientate themselves has also given us these […]2003, C. Krydz Ikwuemesi, The Triumph of a Vision, page 198