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Derangement

noun
1.
A state of mental disturbance and disorientation.  Synonyms: mental unsoundness, unbalance.
2.
The act of disturbing the mind or body.  Synonyms: overthrow, upset.  "She was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"






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"Derangement" Quotes from Famous Books



... like the passing of a railway train when the shells pass overhead; then there is the explosion at point of contact, a terrific concussion which produces the human condition called "shell-shock," a derangement of body and brain, paralyzing nerve and muscle centers and ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

... calamity. Who is surprised, that untold sorrows, from this cause, should corrode the very springs of life? Disappointed affection has a melancholy tale to relate, wherever are gathered the sad subjects of mental derangement. And blessed are those noble Institutions, which, by the power of Christianity, soothe the minds, and restore the reason, of those ...
— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

... insertions of the pectoral and latissimus dorsi muscles, these are the very agents which when the bone possessed its integrity rendered it functionally fitting, and which, now that the bone is severed, produce the displacement of the lower fragment from the upper one. To counteract this source of derangement, the surgeon becomes the mechanician, and now, for the first time, he recognises the necessity of the ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... sentiment will sustain me in the assertion that such deeds of wrong are not confined to any particular State or section, but are manifested over the entire country, demonstrating that the cause that produced them does not depend upon any particular locality, but is the result of the agitation and derangement incident to a long and bloody civil war. While the prevalence of such disorders must be greatly deplored, their occasional and temporary occurrence would seem to furnish no necessity for the extension of the Bureau beyond the period fixed in the ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 6: Andrew Johnson • James D. Richardson

... help it, you are in an abnormal condition, you have lost self-control,—it is a mild type of mental derangement. You must attack your bad habit of worrying as you would a disease. It is definitely something to be overcome, an infirmity that you are to ...
— Cheerfulness as a Life Power • Orison Swett Marden


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