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Dement vs Derange - What's the difference?

dement | derange |

As verbs the difference between dement and derange

is that dement is to drive mad; to craze while derange is to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged.

As an adjective dement

is insane, demented.

As a noun dement

is an insane person, or one afflicted with dementia.

dement

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) insane, demented

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drive mad; to craze
    • ----

    derange

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged )
  • to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state
  • * 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
    • Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society;
  • (archaic) to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone
  • * 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress
    • "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body."

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