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reorientate

vb. (context transitive English) To orientate anew; to cause to face a different direction.

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reorientate

v. orient once again, after a disorientation [syn: reorient]

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Simultaneously, a tremendous crash and explosion heaved up the duck-boards beneath the feet of the men in the bridge catapulting them all ways, into each other, into flesh-bruising, bone-breaking metal, into the dazed confusion of numbed minds and bodies fighting to reorientate themselves under the crippling handicap of stunning shock, of eardrums rended by the blast, of throat and nostrils stung by acrid fumes, of eyes blinded by dense black smoke.

Perhaps Sulien still kept a precarious fondness for the Order he had left, for its stability and certainty, not to be found in the world outside, and still felt the need to make contact with it from time to time, while he reorientated his life.

He spent a lot of his time writing verse in the lavatory -- a kind of womb you say it is here, but that's a lot of nonsense, of course -- and this woman made him marry her and it was a mess and he ran away and then he tried to go back to the old life, writing poetry in the lavatory and so on, and it didn't work so he attempted suicide and then you cured him by reorientating his personality, as it's called here, and then he became a useful citizen and forgot all about poetry and -- Well," Hogg said, "that, if I may say so, is an astonishing coincidence, you might call it.