derange

Tolentino explores these overheated environments and their incentives, and how they derange our sense of ourselves and our values.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

Though ambiguity and the unknowable drive and derange this novel’s characters, I don’t believe Apostol is arguing against the existence of demonstrable fact.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018

And yet neighbors living in democracies can derange themselves, too.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2016

Twin Peaks didn’t break the rules of dramatic television so much as subtly derange them.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2015

The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Some chess dramas show the game as destructive, a pursuit that deranges its disciples.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020

One shot in particular briefly references, and deranges, the Star Child sequence from “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2018

Then again, a whole sequence in which Dreyfuss builds his dream peak in the living room from mud and shrubbery is so forced and silly it nearly deranges all the rest of the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017

There are two good reasons for its abolition: it infantilises us, and, in turn, it deranges the royals.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2012

It rather deranges my calculations; but perhaps it is as good a card as the other.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various

It is even more deranged than you might expect.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

The US president at one point claimed the pool had been targeted by "sick, deranged" vandals, and was "given a 300 foot long gash" by a blade.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior, which manages the National Mall in downtown Washington, described the incident as "deranged vandalism" and said it "will not be tolerated."

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

But in Pakistan it often takes on a deranged quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

The sound of pursuit still rang out from behind, but it had lessened, as if even their deranged pursuers understood it was crazy to head into a forest fire.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

So much so, in fact, that John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute, summed it up this way to Kaiser Health News: “COVID is deranging the immune system.”

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2023

His relationship with painting was akin to that of a besotted lover with a domineering partner: The pleasure is deranging, but the cost to one’s equanimity steep.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022

Because he’s never put himself out there like this, and it’s deranging him because he’s a highly emotional person.

From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2022

"Covid is deranging the immune system," said John Wherry, director of the Penn Medicine Immune Health Institute and another co-author of the January study.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2021

Besides deranging the plans of the British, it carried conviction to their minds that his Most Christian Majesty was seriously disposed to support them.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson