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Deranges vs Deranged - What's the difference?

deranges | deranged |

As verbs the difference between deranges and deranged

is that deranges is while deranged is (derange).

As an adjective deranged is

disturbed or upset, especially mentally.

deranges

English

Verb

(head)
  • (derange)
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    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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    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

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  • (derange)
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