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ORIENTATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they orientate ... he / she / it orientates
Past simple: orientated
Past participle: orientated
-ing form: orientating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Determine one's position with reference to another point
Example:
We had to orient ourselves in the forest
Synonyms:
orient; orientate
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "orientate" is one way to...):
decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "orientate"):
guide; guide on (use as a guide)
reorient; reorientate (orient once again, after a disorientation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
