deranging

verb

present participle of derange
1
as in unbalancing
to cause to go insane or as if insane being stranded at night on a lonely road would derange anyone

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2
as in disrupting
to undo the proper order or arrangement of the storage room had all been deranged by the earthquake, and it took hours to sort things out

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Recent Examples of deranging Instagram demanded a certain sort of woman and then produced her, deranging broad swaths of the population in the process. — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026 Gabriel going missing proves to be deranging to Caroline, and the novel becomes increasingly deranged with her. — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deranging
  1. unbalancing
  2. disrupting
  3. disturbing
  4. shuffling
  5. distracting
  6. confusing
  7. unhinging
  8. bothering
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  • The risk is that only a handful of clubs will be able to cough up those sums, unbalancing the market.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Definition of unbalancing
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  • Endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in plastics, pesticides, skincare products and food additives can interfere with hormone receptors and disturb reproductive hormone balance at younger ages.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
  • Riverside County has embraced the approach in hopes of disrupting the drug trade and preventing overdoses.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
Definition of disrupting
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  • Harper’s left behind records detailing disturbing behavior that seem not to have been based in fact.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 30 July 2026
  • Out of competition The world of elite sports is taken to disturbing new heights full of brutality and painful ambition in the new film from Nikias Chryssos (The Bunker, Rave On, A Pure Place).
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026
Definition of disturbing
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  • Pre-shot routines such as Patrick Cantlay’s foot-shuffling and Brian Harman’s waggles have driven golf fans up a wall.
    — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Far more than an administrative exercise or paper-shuffling task, effective onboarding has the potential to lay the foundation for not only a successful hire, but for a mutually satisfying employment tenure.
    — Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
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  • The Art of Peripheral Focus One of the primary challenges of a 270-degree projection is ensuring the peripheral imagery enhances the experience without distracting from the central narrative.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • In the context of tens of thousands of DPS students who aren’t making gains quickly enough to ever meet proficiency levels, such fanfare is essentially distracting braggadocio.
    — Elaine Gantz Berman, Denver Post, 27 July 2026
Definition of distracting
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  • Physicians are alarmed, stressing that FDA licensing is crucial for guiding patients, as this decision risks confusing consumers about regulated versus unregulated treatments.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The Seahawks and Eagles won Super Bowls by confusing teams from multiple alignments.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of confusing
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  • Burmese pythons, which can engulf an entire Presidential golfing party simply by unhinging their (the pythons’) jaws, inhabit the environs of the Gulf of Mexico, and have even been seen swimming offshore.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Definition of unhinging
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  • Hip still bothering Springs Springs lasted just four innings after issuing a season-high five walks, throwing 86 pitches — only 51% of them strikes — and gave up his 28th home run of the season, the most of any pitcher in the league.
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Sharks already frequent Southern California beaches, usually without bothering anyone.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of bothering

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