misorientate

verb3

1. •
   To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction.

   • Sometimes I would misorientate slides 90 degrees or 180 degrees. — 1974
2. •
   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
3. •
   [with oneself] 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