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

Its daily use, in any form, deranges, and sometimes destroys the stomach and nerves, produces weakness, low spirits, dyspepsy, vertigo, and many other complaints.

From The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

It is even more deranged than you might expect.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 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

Mr. Bennett is potty about footie, and like all mildly deranged fans of the Beautiful Game he sees it as transcending the boundaries of mere sport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

I was listening for the sound of footsteps in the hall, and when I heard them I became deranged.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

In fact, the waters of the sea require to be stirred, because numerous agents are at work day and night, from pole to pole, altering their specific gravity and deranging, so to speak, the mixture.

From The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne