Lexic.us

Definition of Derange

1. Verb. Derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane. "The death of his parents unbalanced him"

2. Verb. Throw into great confusion or disorder. "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"

Definition of Derange

1. 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.

Definition of Derange

1. Verb. to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see ''deranged'') ¹

2. Verb. to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state ¹

3. Verb. (archaic) to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Derange

1. to disorder [v -RANGED, -RANGING, -RANGES] - See also: disorder

Medical Definition of Derange

1. 1. 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. 2. 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." (Blair) 3. To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane. Synonym: To disorder, disarrange, displace, unsettle, disturb, confuse, discompose, ruffle, disconcert. Origin: F. Deranger; pref. De- = des- (L. Dis) + ranger to range. See Range, and cf. Disarrange, Disrank. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Derange

deraining derains deramciclane derandomisation derandomise derandomised derandomises derandomising derandomization derandomizations

derandomize derandomized derandomizes derandomizing derange (current term) deranged derangement derangements deranger derangers

deranges deranging derat derate derated derates derating deratings deration

Literary usage of Derange

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"A defeat of a general will, at the same time that it throws his army into disorder, derange more or less his own plans. This distinction is not destroyed by ..."

2. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... most valuable privileges— whose rights they violate, whose business they derange, and the value of whose property they render unstable and insecure. ..."

3. A Young Scholar's Letters: Being a Memoir of Byron Caldwell Smith by Byron Caldwell Smith, Day Otis Kellogg (1897)
"To collect one's ideas for a newspaper article would derange one's temper for study to a sad degree. Give my love to all, and think of me as often as I do ..."

4. A Young Scholar's Letters: Being a Memoir of Byron Caldwell Smith by Byron Caldwell Smith, Day Otis Kellogg (1897)
"To collect one's ideas for a newspaper article would derange one's temper for study to a sad degree. Give my love to all, and think of me as often as I do ..."

5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Der. derange-ment. DERELICTION, complete abandonment. (L.) Derelict, in the sente of ' abandoned,' was also formerly in use. but is perhaps obsolete. ..."

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