derange
/di'reindʤ/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To disturb the normal arrangement, functioning, or order of something; to throw into confusion or disorder: This meaning focuses on disrupting a system, plan, or physical order.
- To make someone insane or mentally unbalanced; to cause mental disturbance: This meaning refers to causing a severe disruption to someone's mental state or sanity.
Usage and Examples
- To disturb order or function:
- The sudden storm completely deranged our travel plans.
- Vandals deranged the carefully organized files in the office.
- To cause mental imbalance:
- The traumatic experience deranged him, and he was never the same.
- The constant isolation began to derange her mind.
Advanced Usage
- "Deranged" (Adjective): Used to describe a state of being mentally disturbed or insane.
- The police warned the public about a potentially deranged individual.
- His deranged laughter frightened everyone in the room.
Variants and Related Words
- Derangement (Noun): The state of being deranged; disorder or insanity.
- The derangement of the schedule caused major problems.
- He was suffering from a severe mental derangement.
Synonyms
- Disrupt: To interrupt the normal course of something.
- Upset: To disturb the order or stability of something.
- Unbalance: To cause to become unbalanced, especially mentally.
- Disturb: To interfere with the normal arrangement or functioning.
Antonyms
- Arrange: To put things in a neat, attractive, or required order.
- Order: To arrange methodically or systematically.
- Soothe: To gently calm (a person or their feelings).
- Stabilize: To make or become unlikely to change, fail, or decline.
Verb
- throw into great confusion or disorder
- Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt
- derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane
- The death of his parents unbalanced him