Derange vs Discard - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between derange and discard

is that derange is to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged while discard is to throw away, to reject.

anything discarded.

(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."

(en verb)

to throw away, to reject.

* I. Taylor

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

(card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card.

To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

* Jonathan Swift

They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should resolve to discard them.

* cast away * dismiss * dispose * eliminate * get rid of * throw away * See also

(en noun)

Anything discarded.

A discarded playing card in a card game.

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* English heteronyms