become deranged

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Then would the frightened cattle stampede, and the whole routine of military life become deranged.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Creswicke, Louis

In truth, Mrs. Arlington had become deranged, as it were, on one point.

From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.

Had my brain become deranged, causing a strange, an amazing hallucination?

From The Four Faces A Mystery by Le Queux, William

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 phrase, to wring, is also applied to a capstan when by an undue strain the component parts of the wood become deranged, and are thereby disunited.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir