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Demented vs Derange - What's the difference?

demented | derange |

As verbs the difference between demented and derange

is that demented is past tense of dement while derange is to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged.

As an adjective demented

is insane or mentally ill.

demented

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Insane or mentally ill.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}
  • Suffering from dementia.
  • Crazy; ridiculous.
    • a demented idea

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dement)

    • 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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