Derange

Definition: Derange

Derange

Verb

1. Derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane.

2. Throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "derange" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Derange \De*range"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deranged; present participle verb or noun Deranging.]. (references)

Synonyms: Derange

Amorphism

Verb: deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar.

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Disorder

Put out of order; derange; ravel; ruffle, rumple.

Insanity

Render mad, drive mad; Adjective: madden, dementate, addle the wits, addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head; drive one nuts.

Crosswords: Derange

Albanian

luaj mendsh (distract), çrregulloj (confuse, disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disturb, downgrade, mess, rumple, tumble, upset), çmend (dement, distract, drive smb. mad, madden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عكر (disturb, muddle, muddy, roil, trouble, turbid, turbidity), ‏عطل (cancel, cripple, damage, deactivate, disrupt, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, stay, suspend), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умопобърквам се, разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), повреждам (blemish, damage, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), побърквам се (go haywire). (various references)

Czech

rozrušit (disturb, excite, upset). (various references)

Danish

blokere opkaldet (derange a call). (various references)

Dutch

verbinding storen,een (derange a call). (various references)

Farsi 

دیوانه کردن (Craze, Distract, Mad, Madden, Moon), بی ترتیب کردن (Disarrange, Untune, Wanton), برهم زدن (Bash, Coup, Disarrange, Disband, Disorder, Disturb, Ruffle, Tousle, Unsettle). (various references)

Finnish

häiritä yhteyttä (derange a call), häiritä puhelua (derange a call). (various references)

French

déranger, troubler, faire dérégler, brouiller. (various references)

German

durcheinanderbringen (confound, confuse, disarrange, disorganize, disturb, get into a mess, get into a muddle, jumble, mess about, mess around, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, muddle up, tangle, tangle up, to disturb, unsettle, unsteady, upset). (various references)

Greek 

συγχύζω (addle, becloud, confound, discompose, disconcert, distract, muddle, obfuscate), ενοχλώ (act up, ail, annoy, badger, bedevil, bother, discommode, disturb, fret, get someone's back up, grate on, harass, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infest, irk, irritate, jar on, pester, pother, trouble), τρελαίνω (craze, drive mad, madden), διαταράσσω (perturb, scramble, unsettle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לש�'ע (drive insane, drive mad, madden), לשבש (cripple, dislocate, disrupt, muddle, queer, upset). (various references)

Hungarian

megõrjít (drive mad, drive wild, mad, madden), elront (blew, blown, corrupt, foul up, impair, make worse, Mar, mess up, misfit, rot, slip up, spoil, tamper, to addle, to ball up, to bitch, to blemish, to blow, to bollix sg up, to bollocks sg up, to boss, to botch, to cock up, to corrupt, to crap sg up, to deprave, to disorder, to flaw, to foul up, to louse up, to mess, to mess up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to put out of order, to rot, to scupper, to spill the beans, to spoil, to vitiate, to worsen, unmake). (various references)

Indonesian

mengacaukan (disarrange, disconcert, disorganize, disrupt, embroil, entangle, ravel, tangle). (various references)

Italian

disorganizzare (disarrange, disorganise, disorganize, unsettle), sconvolgere (disconcert, disturb, fluster, perturb, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset), guastare (damage, fail, Mar, ruin, spoil, taint, warp), frastornare (bother, daze, disturb, thwart, thwarted). (various references)

Manx

jannoo baanrit, cur fud y cheilley (bemuse, confuse, disarray, disorganization, disorganize, embarrass, jumble, litter, maze, perturb, puzzle, subvert; dislocation, tangle). (various references)

Pig Latin

erangeday.(various references)

Portuguese

desordenar (disarrange, discompose, disorder), desconcertar (appal, baffle, beat, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dismay, disorder, flummox, outface, put off, puzzle), desarranjar (disarrange, dislocate, disorder, muss, tousle, translocate, unsettle), decompor (analyse, decompose, decompound), transtornar (disarray, discompose, distune, incommode, unhinge, unsettle, upset), perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pother, pull down, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset), enlouquecer (craze, dement, go mad, mad, madden, run amok, run amuck, run mad), embaraçar (abash, astonish, astound, blur, clog, cumber, detain, dim, disconcert, embarrass, embroil, encumber, entangle, puzzle, quiz, straiten, trammel). (various references)

Romanian

deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disturb, fidget, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, ruffle, spoil, trouble, tumble), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), rãvãşi (disturb, mess, scatter), incomoda (bother, discomfort, disturb, glut, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

приводить в беспорядок (clutter, disarrange, disarray, foul up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rastrojiti (distract, unnerve, unstring, upset), poremetiti (disarrange, disrupt, disturb, unhinge). (various references)

Spanish

desarreglar (disarrange, disarray, disorder, mess up, muss, tumble), trastornar (dislocate, disorder, overthrow, overturn, shake, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, unsettle, upset), girar (back, draw, endorse, go round, gyrate, hinge, Rev, revolve, rotate, slew, slue, spin, swish, swivel round, to turn, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twist, twist round, veer, wheel, wind, wind up), estorbar (bar, be in the way of, bother, defeat, disturb, encumber, fetter, gag, get in the way, guard against, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, intrude, keep back, muzzle, obstruct, prevent, thwart, tie, upset), enloquecer (drive crazy, drive mad, madden). (various references)

Swedish

störa (disrupt, disturb, faze, fuss about, interfere with, interrupt, intrude, jam, molest, perturb, pervert, worry), rubba (dislocate, dislodge, disorder, displace, disturb, shatter, unbalance, upset). (various references)

Turkish

dengesini bozmak (overbalance, unbalance), rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bait, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), kafasını karıştırmak (bedevil, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, disorient, mix up, obfuscate, perturb, puzzle), çıldırtmak (drive crazy, drive smb. nuts, drive smb. to distraction, drive smb. up the wall, drive smb. wild, frenzy, send smb. up the wall). (various references)

Ukrainian

сплутувати (implicate), розстроювати (baffle, detune, disorder, distune, frustrate, overset, unnerve, upset), розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disturb, frustrate, overset, shatter, unfix, unhinge, unsettle), турбувати (afflict, ail, annoy, commove, concern, disoblige, embarrass, faze, gnaw, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, perturb, put about, work, worry), звести з розуму. (various references)

conturba, conturbabant, conturbabar, conturbabimini, conturbabis, conturbabit, conturbabuntur, conturbamini, conturbant, conturbaret, conturbaris, conturbas, conturbasti, conturbat, conturbata, conturbatae, conturbati, conturbatum, conturbatumque, conturbatur, conturbatus, conturbaverunt, conturbavit, conturbemini, conturbent, conturbentur, conturbet, conturbo. (various references)

desrengier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "derange": deranged, derangement, derangements, deranges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Derange" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dafang, Dearne, Debarge, Decrane, Delange, Demange, demangler, derang, Derasge, Derenne, Derganagh, derine, Derring, Derrings, Dervaig, Dewanji, Dibango, dojang, dorange, Dormagen, drang, Dregne, drongo, ferrangi, Oeyangen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: angered, enraged, grandee, grenade.

-1 letter: agreed, danger, dragee, earned, endear, enrage, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, neared, ranged.

-2 letters: agene, agree, anger, denar, eager, eagre, eared, edger, ender, genre, grade, grand, greed, green, raged, ragee, ranee, range, redan, regna.

-3 letters: aged, agee, ager, dang, dare, darn, dean, dear, deer, dene, dere, drag, dree, dreg, earn, edge, egad, eger.

+1 letter: dangered, deranged, deranges, dungaree, endanger, engraved, enlarged, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, garnered, gendarme, grandees, grenades, regained, rehanged, renegade, renegado, underage.

+2 letters: begroaned, denigrate, deraigned, dungarees, endangers, endearing, engrafted, engrailed, engrained, estranged, gaberdine, gangrened, gardeners, garmented, gendarmes, generated, germander, gesneriad, glandered, gratineed, greatened, greenhead, greensand, grenadier, grenadine, legendary, margented, orangeade, realigned, rechanged, reengaged, regranted, renegaded, renegades, renegados, rereading, underages, vinegared.