deranging

Popular usage has so colored the word "deranging" that its use is almost always pejorative.

Plastic Fiction Illert, Paul 1976

They want the American republic to declare its independence of market riptides that are deranging the old journalism and that are governing the government.

Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011

EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew.

derrick jensen & aric mcbay | what we leave behind « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Search hard, and phalluses appear among the squiggles though American critics sometimes confused them with carrots or rockets, and in 1961 the juicy Ferragosto paintings recreated the mid-August holiday with lurid colours and brown scatological smears, applied once again with the left hand: Roland Barthes aptly described them as gestures of "dirtying", "deranging the morality of the body".

Cy Twombly obituary 2011

EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew.

August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

They want the American republic to declare its independence of market riptides that are deranging the old journalism and that are governing the government.

Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011

Finally the third guy agrees to take me for the proper price (20c) so I hop on and hang on as the noise, the bustle, the deranging of downtown Batouri thankfully drops away behind me to be replaced by the peaceful croaking of frogs and chirping of insects in the swamp near my neighborhood.

Alcohol « Cameroon 2009

Speculators warred for control of railroads, deranging share prices and rail traffic.

Life After Death H.W. Brands 2010

Everyone was so laid back and friendly and inquisitive but not in a harassing (or deranging as we say in franglais) manor.

Baby farts « Cameroon 2008

Now if we just knew how to boost beta cells without deranging something else…

Odds and ends May 21, 2009 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009