become deranged
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He learned that the machinery in the point lighthouse had become deranged, so that the wrong signal was shown.
From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Webster, Frank V.
The woman reading seemed suddenly to have become deranged.
From The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Had my brain become deranged, causing a strange, an amazing hallucination?
From The Four Faces A Mystery by Le Queux, William
We looked over the book of reports, and found seven-eighths of the female patients to have become deranged from love; whilst, with the majority of the males, the hallucination proceeded from disappointments of ambition.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 by Various
Cross-examined.—I supposed when I first went into the room that her influence over the child had caused the child to become deranged.
From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware