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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Derange \De*range"\, verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. 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.
2. 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. --Blair.
3. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deranged \De*ranged"\, adjective Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.
The story of a poor deranged parish lad. --Lamb.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deranged
adjective: driven insane [syn: {crazed}, {half-crazed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "deranged": abnormal, amiss, askew, awry, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, bereft of reason, berserk, bonkers, brainsick, cockeyed, convulsed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, dippy, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, distraught, disturbed, dotty, flighty, hallucinated, haywire, in disorder, insane, irrational, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, maddened, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, misplaced, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, odd, of unsound mind, off, on the fritz, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed, potty, psycho, psychotic, queer, reasonless, roily, screwy, senseless, shuffled, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, turbid, turbulent, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, upset, wacky, wandering, witless
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