derange

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216:--'Johnson would not allow the word derange to be an English word.

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  1. transitive verb To disturb the order or arrangement of.
  2. transitive verb To upset the normal condition or functioning of.
  3. transitive verb To disturb mentally; make insane.

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  • Occasionally an animal may be found whose digestion no amount of forcing will derange, but such cases are very rare. —  Cattle and Cattle-breeders
  • That firmament, on which the stars move like the hands of a perfect clock, which nothing shakes nor can derange, and whose accuracy is absolute--that firmament would tell him the hours and the distances. —  Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen
  • Such conduct is not merely an injury to individual creditors, but it is a wrong to the whole community, from whose liberality they hold most valuable privileges, whose rights they violate, whose business they derange, and the value of whose property they render unstable and insecure. —  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
  • 216:--'Johnson would not allow the word derange to be an English word. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
  • She could see that he really was grieved to 'derange' her, but that circumstances pressed At my paper," he murmured, "it is not so easy as that to--in fine Gerald had genuinely been at his last francs. —  The Old Wives' Tale
 

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  1. French déranger, from Old French desrengier : des-, de- + reng, line (of Germanic origin; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from French déranger, Old French desrengier, desrangier, desranger = Provencal desrengar, desrencar, desrancar, put out of order, from des- privative + rengier, renger, ranger, put in order, range: see range.
 

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/dəˈreɪndʒ/
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