become deranged
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Q.--If any of the working parts of a locomotive break or become deranged, what should be done?
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.
The woman reading seemed suddenly to have become deranged.
From The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Either Gale's sense of color and proportion had become deranged during the fight, or the encompassing air and the desert had changed.
From Desert Gold by Grey, Zane
Should it become deranged, however slightly, the mind is no longer fitted to the circumstances; it wanders, dreams.
From Dreams by Slosson, Edwin E.
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
