DERANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does derange mean? 

• DERANGE (verb)
  The verb DERANGE has 2 senses:

1. derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane

2. throw into great confusion or disorder

  Familiarity information: DERANGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they derange    ... he / she / it deranges   
Past simple: deranged   
Past participle: deranged   
-ing form: deranging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

derange; unbalance

Context example:

The death of his parents unbalanced him

Hypernyms (to "derange" is one way to...):

craze; madden (cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

derangement (a state of mental disturbance and disorientation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Throw into great confusion or disorder

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

derange; perturb; throw out of kilter

Context example:

Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order

Hypernyms (to "derange" is one way to...):

disarray; disorder (bring disorder to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

derangement (the act of disturbing the mind or body)

 Context examples 

Deranged function in an individual or an organ that is due to a disease.

(Pathophysiology, NCI Thesaurus)

The conclusion of this speech convinced my father that my ideas were deranged, and he instantly changed the subject of our conversation and endeavoured to alter the course of my thoughts.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hannah was out of humor because her week's work was deranged, and prophesied that "ef the washin' and ironin' warn't done reg'lar, nothin' would go well anywheres".

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son-in-law's rights would have given.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"No. How very easily alarmed you are!" he answered, removing his cloak and hanging it up against the door, towards which he again coolly pushed the mat which his entrance had deranged.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her health seemed for the moment completely deranged—appetite quite gone—and though there were no absolutely alarming symptoms, nothing touching the pulmonary complaint, which was the standing apprehension of the family, Mr. Perry was uneasy about her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I found it not difficult, in the excitement of Mr. Chillip's own brain, under his potations of negus, to divert his attention from this topic to his own affairs, on which, for the next half-hour, he was quite loquacious; giving me to understand, among other pieces of information, that he was then at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house to lay his professional evidence before a Commission of Lunacy, touching the state of mind of a patient who had become deranged from excessive drinking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was wild to be at home—to hear, to see, to be upon the spot to share with Jane in the cares that must now fall wholly upon her, in a family so deranged, a father absent, a mother incapable of exertion, and requiring constant attendance; and though almost persuaded that nothing could be done for Lydia, her uncle's interference seemed of the utmost importance, and till he entered the room her impatience was severe.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)