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/dɪrˈeɪndʒ/ 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.

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Etymology of 'Derange'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Derange" Quotes from Famous Books

... have conceived that an edgewise gripe of such a mass of metal could derange its form ...

— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy

... eluded the eagle-eye of Physiology, and will perhaps remain inscrutible forever to human comprehension. But that this connexion exists is fully demonstrated by medical experience, and observation. Many bodily disorders derange the mind, and have in many instances totally destroyed it. So on the other hand diseases of the mind effect the body in return, and grief, despair and melancholy have so preyed upon the vitals as to emaciate the body, and bring it to the grave. It is ...

— Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation • John Bovee Dods

... believes. In July, 1885, Sir Charles Dilke had all these grounds for satisfaction, and in no common measure. Of course there were anxieties, politically speaking; Mr. Gladstone's future course of action was uncertain, and Mr. Gladstone was so great a force that he might at any time derange all calculations—as, in point of fact, he did. Still, time was on the side of the Radicals, and from day to day they held what they called 'cabals' of the group formed by Chamberlain, Shaw-Lefevre, Trevelyan, Morley, and ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... necessary effects, which they produce relatively to himself. He fears the wicked man; he says that he will carry confusion into society, because he disturbs its tendency and places obstacles to its happiness. He avoids a falling stone, because it will derange in him the order necessary to his conservation. Nevertheless, order and confusion, are always, as we have shewn, consequences, equally necessary to either the transient or durable state of beings. ...

— The System of Nature, Vol. 1 • Baron D'Holbach

... to get at the foundations is to try to recover consciousness about things that have passed into the unconscious stage; it is pretty sure to disturb and derange those who ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

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