disorient

Dolphins usually beach themselves when sick, injured, or disoriented, and most do not survive.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has used similar methods to disorient and pacify the Russian public.

They suggest that, much like humans with dementia who sometimes wander away from familiar places, dolphins might also become disoriented due to a form of Alzheimer's-like disease.

Within hours of arriving in Venice, he begins to suspect that the city itself, with its disorienting streets and shady denizens, is somehow in cahoots with his sphinxlike wife to betray him.

If that seems disorienting, well then, the Philippous’ work here is done.