to derange
- verb
- /dɪˈreɪndʒ/
- You don't realize it's psychologically incredibly deranging to see the human body rearranged.
Once you start doing that, culture will slowly derange over time.
- Once you start doing that, culture will slowly derange over time.
- That period of broad, distributed, technologically LED, dependable high levels of growth deranged us.
- We were the first to send great puffs of acrid smoke into the heavens on a scale big enough to derange the natural order.
- And it, the word there is perchubatur, meaning it disturbs, it deranges, it sets things out, it continually bothers us.
- You could say, right, you know, deranging them in certain ways.
- And so we get into these deranging battles so that people say that the Earth is flat.
- What makes it so deranging is the fact that there is essentiality out there and they can't find a way back into it.
Examples
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We were the first to send great puffs of acrid smoke into the heavens on a scale big enough to derange the natural order.
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Once you start doing that, culture will slowly derange over time.
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You could say, right, you know, deranging them in certain ways.
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I mean, it's, it's psychologically incredibly deranging to see the human body rearranged.
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And now here's where the villain really deranges Harvey Dent.
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And it, the word there is perchubatur, meaning it disturbs, it deranges, it sets things out, it continually bothers us.
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He's he's not deranging himself with with pharmaceuticals at least, but apart from Diet Coke.
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Much as I had complained, inwardly and outwardly, about the way Wetherall had deranged my life, I wasn't sure I wanted it to be deranged again.
Fiction book (1999) -
The unexpected news about the layoffs deranged the entire office, leaving everyone confused about their future.
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The artist's chaotic style seemed to derange the usual expectations of beauty in painting.
Synonyms
To make people confused and things messy
Make a plan or project fail
To make someone's plans or schedule not work as expected
To make something untidy or not in its usual order
To make a place or situation very messy and confused
To cause a sudden change that upsets the normal order of a system or situation
To disturb a meeting or event and make it not work as planned
Antonyms
How Disruptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Derange comes from the French parts de- meaning 'remove' and ranger meaning 'to put in order', the same root as arrange. So to derange something is to 'undo its order' or 'disrupt its arrangement', causing confusion or disorder.