Dictionary Definition
derange
Verb
1 derange mentally, throw out of mental balance;
make insane; "The death of his parents unbalanced him" [syn:
unbalance]
2 throw into great confusion or disorder;
"Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in
Algeria and Egypt" [syn: perturb, throw
out of kilter]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
(US) IPA: /diˈreɪndʒ/Verb
- to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged)
- to cause disorder
in something, to distort
it from its ideal state
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society;
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- to disrupt
somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone
- 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress
- "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body."
- 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress
Translations
to cause someone to go insane
- Finnish: tehdä hulluksi
to cause disorder in something, to distort it
from its ideal state
- Finnish: sekoittaa
to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience
someone
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
afflict, clutter, craze, debilitate, dement, devitalize, disable, disarrange, disarray, discommode, discompose, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, distract, disturb, drive insane, drive
mad, enervate, enfeeble, frenzy, hospitalize, incapacitate, incommode, inconvenience, indispose, invalid, lay up, litter, mad, madden, make mad, mess, mess up, misarrange, muss, muss up, perturb, reduce, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, send mad, shatter, sicken, tousle, turn, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weaken