Derange
[dɪ'reɪn(d)ʒ]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.
(v. t.) To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Disorder, confuse, unsettle, disarrange, displace, turn topsy-turvy, put out of place.[2]. Disturb, discompose, disconcert, ruffle.[3]. Make or render insane.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Definition
v.t. to put out of place or order: to disorder.—p.adj. Deranged′ disordered: insane.—n. Derange′ment disorder; insanity.
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Examples
- All the different regulations of the mercantile system necessarily derange more or less this natural and most advantageous distribution of stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No; you might sadden and trouble me sometimes; but then mine was a soon-depressed, an easily-deranged temperament--it fell if a cloud crossed the sun. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Such result, produced by long and continued exposure, has sometimes so deranged the skin tissues as to make sores that resulted in the entire loss of and renewal of the skin. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Can we easily conceive how the strata of the earth could have been so deranged, if it had not been a mere shell supported by a heavier fluid? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In short, that she had become suddenly deranged? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And you know that a man who is deranged and not right in his mind, will fancy that he is able to rule, not only over men, but also over the gods? Plato. The Republic.
- And will not the bravest and wisest soul be least confused or deranged by any external influence? Plato. The Republic.
- It seems to me to be not only the letter of a woman, but of a woman whose mind must be---- Deranged? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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