deranged; deranging
1
: to disturb the operation or functions of
deranged by even the slightest damage
2
: disarrange
… hatless, with tie deranged …—
G. W. Stonier
G. W. Stonier3
: to make mentally unsound
Examples of derange in a Sentence
being stranded at night on a lonely road would derange anyone
the storage room had all been deranged by the earthquake, and it took hours to sort things out
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Many of those viewers have strong opinions and allegiances and are deranged.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Most people don’t commit violent acts, but in the hands of someone who’s fired up and mentally deranged, anything can happen.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
The perpetrator is obviously deranged, but posts like Min’s might rile up and radicalize the next deranged person.
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And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Most people don’t commit violent acts, but in the hands of someone who’s fired up and mentally deranged, anything can happen.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
The perpetrator is obviously deranged, but posts like Min’s might rile up and radicalize the next deranged person.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Derange.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derange. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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derange
verb
de·range
di-ˈrānj 
deranged; deranging
1
: to put out of order : disarrange
hair deranged by the wind
2
often offensive
: to make insane
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