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derange en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ (UK)
• /diˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ (US)

Etymology

From French déranger, from Old French desrengier (“throw into disorder”), from des- + rengier (“to put into line”), from reng (“line, row”), from a Germanic source. See rank (noun).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:chiefly passive voice, transitive) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
2. (transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
   • Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society; 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
3. (transitive) To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.
   • 4-16. All lighting was cut off by a close detonation but was partially restored after a short while. Many auxiliary motors were short-circuited or deranged. There were at least nineteen cracked jars in the forward battery and one in the after battery, causing loss of electrolyte and full grounds. All of the electric alarm and telephone circuits were out of commission. 1949 January 1, Bureau of Ships, “U.S.S. PERCH (SS176), Loss in Action, Java Sea, 3 March 1942”, in Submarine Report: Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine, Torpedo and Gunfire Damage, Including Losses in Action, 7 December 1941 to 15 August 1945, volume 1, United States Hydrographic Office, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022, page 21:
4. (archaic) To disrupt (somebody's) plans, to inconvenience; to derail.
   • A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first. 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost Special:
   • "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body." 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress:

Forms

Deriveds

derangement · deranger · derangeable

Translations (19)

bg разбърквам (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · cs rozrušit (to cause someone to go insane) · mk на́руши (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · bg размествам (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · mk избе́зуми (to cause someone to go insane) · fi sekoittaa (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · ca pertorbar (to cause someone to go insane) · es trastornar (to cause someone to go insane) · mk по́луди (to cause someone to go insane) · es hacer derranchar (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · ru расстро́ить (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · mk возне́мири (to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone) · es trastornar (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · fi tehdä hulluksi (to cause someone to go insane) · es hacer derranchar (to cause someone to go insane) · bg обърквам (to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone) · bg побърквам (to cause someone to go insane) · mk ра́стура (to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state) · mk на́руши (to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone)