DERANGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deranged mean? 

• DERANGED (adjective)
  The adjective DERANGED has 1 sense:

1. driven insane

  Familiarity information: DERANGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERANGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Driven insane

Synonyms:

crazed; deranged; half-crazed

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

 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)

So Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief" in order that the case might remain in its simplest form.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)