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/dɪrˈeɪndʒd/ Listen

verb

Derange v. t. (past & past part. deranged; pres. part. deranging)

To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism. "A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts."

To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

Synonyms: To disorder; disarrange; displace; unsettle; disturb; confuse; discompose; ruffle; disconcert.

adjective

Deranged adj. Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. "The story of a poor deranged parish lad."

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Etymology of 'Deranged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deranged" Quotes from Famous Books

... you not feel rather singular, for a professed ambassador of Christ, to be told by this man "how strange it appeared to him that you should go and put such a note on to an old woman." [This is an old lady, partially deranged, who having a little money, finally consented to loan it to him on a note for interest.] It seems you had consulted a lawyer, to know whether it could be collected in her ...

— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates

... my father say that your mother was very poor—a little deranged; and that there was a chamber in the house which had been shut up ...

— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat

... dislocation is a condition where the normal relation between articular ends of bones has been deranged to the extent that partial or complete loss of function results. When a bone is luxated (out of joint), there has occurred a partial or complete rupture of certain ligaments or tendons; or a bone may be luxated ...

— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix

... troops destined to protect them against an expected assault; when a brave man, Major Anderson, took measures to defend the post that had been confided him, this unexpected resistance by which the programme was deranged, appeared as ill-timed to Mr. Buchanan as insolent to the people of Charleston; and the despatch of the 30th of December, addressed to their commissioners, exculpates him from the crime of having sent the reinforcements, and makes excuses in pitiful terms for the conduct of Major Anderson, ...

— The Uprising of a Great People • Count Agenor de Gasparin

... the ships re-echoed dreadfully around from the Greeks shouting. But the Trojans, when they beheld the brave son of Menoetius, himself and his attendant glittering in arms, the mind to all of them was disturbed, and the phalanxes were deranged, deeming that the swift-footed son of Peleus at the ships had cast away his wrath, and resumed friendship: then each one gazed about where ...

— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer

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