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1 a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
  • given powerful drugs to treat his derangement

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2 an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed
  • the derangement of the carefully organized event by a single freak accident

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“Derangement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derangement. Accessed 30 Nov. 2021.

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