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Deranged vs Defanged - What's the difference?

deranged | defanged |

As verbs the difference between deranged and defanged

is that deranged is (derange) while defanged is (defang).

As an adjective deranged

is disturbed or upset, especially mentally.

deranged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • disturbed or upset, especially mentally
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
  • insane

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (derange)

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    defanged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (defang)

    • defang

    English

    Verb

  • To remove the fangs from (something).
    • The snake was defanged .
  • (figuratively) To render harmless.
  • * The roots of terror, The Week , 14 July 2007, 622 , 4.
    • The Government's new security supremo, Admiral Sir Alan West, said the danger from home-grown and foreign terrorists was at its greatest level ever, and warned that it could take up to 15 years to defang Islamic radicalism.

    Synonyms

    * (render harmless) declaw

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