deranges
Throws into chaos
Deranges means disturbs the normal arrangement or function of something, throwing it into disorder.
A shock can derange someone's mental faculties; a malfunction can derange a system's operations.
The word appears most often in its past participle form deranged, describing someone whose mind has become unsettled or disturbed: a deranged gunman, He seemed completely deranged.
Absence of organization
- disorganizesDisrupts systematic arrangement
- upsetsDisturbs or overturns
- throws offRemoves or disorients
- derailsThrows off course
dislocates · scrambles · muddles · confuses · tangles · jumbles · snarls · unsettles
Causes unease or interruption
- agitatesProvokes unrest or motion
- perturbsDisturbs or unsettles
- disquietsCauses mental unease
- alarmsSignals indicating danger
dismays · rattles · unnerves · troubles · disconcerts · flusters · discomposes · throws off
disorder
Absence of organization
- disorganizesDisrupts systematic arrangement
- upsetsDisturbs or overturns
- throws offRemoves or disorients
derails · dislocates · scrambles · muddles · confuses · tangles · jumbles · snarls · unsettles · destabilizes
disturbs
Causes unease or interruption
alarms · dismays · rattles · unnerves · troubles · disconcerts · flusters · discomposes · throws off · upsets
unhinges
Disturbs mental balance
- destabilizesUndermines steadiness or equilibrium
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- lunacyExtreme irrational foolishness
insanity · delirium · mania · hysteria · craziness · irrationality · frenzy · paranoia · delusion · dementia
derangesarranges
Puts into order
orders · organizes · systematizes · straightens · sorts