deranged

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  1. Unsettled in mind; insane. It is the story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb, To Wordsworth.

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  • She could not have committed suicide unless her mind had become deranged, and there was nothing that I knew of to bring about that. —  My Doggie and I
  • But when the great instrument of exchange became thoroughly deranged, all trade, all industry, were smitten as with a palsy.... Nothing could be purchased without a dispute. —  War-Time Financial Problems
  • There was that about him to convince Hugh instantly he must be deranged, although just then the man bent over poor K.K. solicitously, and seemed to be tenderly doing something calculated to ease his pain Hugh coughed, meaning to draw attention to the fact of their arrival. —  The Scranton High Chums on the Cinder Path
  • The attack was so violent that before morning I had become deranged, and my life was despaired of. —  Thirty Years in the Itinerancy
  • He brooded on this till he became deranged, and thought that Satan had him. —  The Making of Religion
 

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