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to derange

to derange

1 7.5
Cause confusion or disorder in plans, work and schedules
  • verb
  • /dɪˈreɪndʒ/
translation icon : desorganizar
  • 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.

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Examples

  • We were the first to send great puffs of acrid smoke into the heavens on a scale big enough to derange the natural order.

  • Once you start doing that, culture will slowly derange over time.

  • You could say, right, you know, deranging them in certain ways.

  • I mean, it's, it's psychologically incredibly deranging to see the human body rearranged.

  • And now here's where the villain really deranges Harvey Dent.

  • And it, the word there is perchubatur, meaning it disturbs, it deranges, it sets things out, it continually bothers us.

  • He's he's not deranging himself with with pharmaceuticals at least, but apart from Diet Coke.

  • 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.

  • The artist's chaotic style seemed to derange the usual expectations of beauty in painting.

Synonyms

to mix up
vsto derange
  • Informal
65 2.7

To make people confused and things messy

expresses wider disruption of normal order, not just confusion between items
to derail
vsto derange
64 4.6

Make a plan or project fail

covers broader disruption of order beyond plans and projects
to throw off
vsto derange
31 4.8

To make someone's plans or schedule not work as expected

is about general disruption or disorder not limited to plans or timing
to disorder
vsto derange
7 5.5

To make something untidy or not in its usual order

targets broader confusion in systems or people's thinking rather than messiness
to cause chaos
vsto derange
7 4.1

To make a place or situation very messy and confused

is the standard term for causing disorder without the extreme intensity
to perturb
vsto derange
1 7.7

To cause a sudden change that upsets the normal order of a system or situation

is the general act of causing disorder without necessarily great intensity
to deray
vsto derange
  • Archaic
9.9

To disturb a meeting or event and make it not work as planned

is broader, meaning general confusion or disrupted normal arrangement

Antonyms

662 1.6

Arrange people, things, and activities so they work well

How Disruptive

to derange
1 7.5
to disrupt
269 4.4

Surface Forms

derange infinitive
deranged past
deranged past participle
deranging present participle
deranges third person singular

Morphology

derange = range (opaque) = de + range

Although historically related to 'range' in the sense 'arrange or put in order', most learners know other senses of 'range', so 'derange' is not readily interpretable from the base.

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.