Crossword clues for derange
derange
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derange \De*range"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Deranging.] [F. d['e]ranger; pref. d['e]- = d['e]s- (L. dis) + ranger to range. See Range, and cf. Disarrange, Disrank.]
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.
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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.
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To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
Syn: To disorder; disarrange; displace; unsettle; disturb; confuse; discompose; ruffle; disconcert.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1776, "throw into confusion," from French déranger, from Old French desrengier "disarrange, throw into disorder," from des- "do the opposite of" (see dis-) + Old French rengier (Modern French ranger) "to put into line," from reng "line, row," from a Germanic source (see rank (n.)). Mental sense first recorded c.1790.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see ''deranged'') 2 to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state 3 (context archaic English) to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone
WordNet
v. derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane; "The death of his parents unbalanced him" [syn: unbalance]
throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt" [syn: perturb, throw out of kilter]
Usage examples of "derange".
Then that deranged half split down the middle and I became suddenly and mortally certain that Valerie had asked me to pilot the shoot as some sort of test, and that her selection of Acer was to let me know that I had missed my last chance to recapture her.
Samson, but Samson took one look at Buffo, big as a house and already half seas over, shepherding his flock into the circus with his customary deranged majesty and the air of one about to commit grievous bodily harm.
Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion-- or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange.
Two of them had been deadlong deadand another had been so deranged that when he was brought up on deck for his fetters to be struck off, he had thrown himself overboard and sunk like a stone.
The days were carefree and happy, and I dreaded returning to the cottage to cook for Funes, who would stare at the pepper-mill, looking quite deranged, and mutter to himself in different languages, describing it over and over again, for hours on end, and then suddenly shut his eyes and try to remember it.
Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Three on a Meathook, Deranged, Ed Gein, The Movie, and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Ruthven was deranged, in consequence of harsh treatment by his brother, Gowrie, is explained by a dispute between the brothers about the possession of the church lands of Scone, which Gowrie held, and Ruthven desired, the King siding with Ruthven.
Her flaky ichthyosis patterns radiate across the flesh of each buttock like scars from a thousand flagellations, but in perfect symmetry, as though inflicted by a deranged aesthete.
The adequate nutrition of the organic tissues demands a plentiful supply of pure blood, or the digestive apparatus will become impaired, the mental processes deranged, and the entire bony and muscular systems will lose their strength and elasticity, and be incapacitated for labor.
Sterility may result from impaired ovarian innervation or undue excitement of the nerves, either of which deranges the process of ovulation.
Mickey had not been given any Phenobarbitone until he was clearly deranged.
It would have been a brave or deranged human or machine who told Ulver Seich to her face that the give-or-take-a-bit human-basic form was not almost unimprovably graceful and alluring, especially in its female state, and even more especially when it was called Ulver Seich.
The slightest functional disturbance of the stomach deranges, more or less, all the succeeding operations of digestion and tends to the vitiation and impairment of the delicate processes of nutrition.
We shall now show from the record, that the other vortices are as effective in deranging the equilibrium of our atmosphere.
He arced the scimitar into the neck of a burly Automaton, then pivoted to slice his blade into the head of a deranged woman.