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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
derange .
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Examples
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But no physicist, to my knowledge, has claimed that Heisenberg's principle "deranges" even physics, much less culture in general.
Plastic Fiction Illert, Paul 1976
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The Nahuas also apparently believed that chocolate, especially in its green or unroasted form, could intoxicate its drinker: "when much drunk ... [it] makes one drunk, takes effect on one, makes one dizzy, confuses one, makes one sick, deranges one."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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It is almost as if there is something about that hard-edged Central Asian country that deranges its occupiers. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 4 Deadly Delusions About Afghanistan Held by Obama's Top Advisors 2009
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It is almost as if there is something about that hard-edged Central Asian country that deranges its occupiers.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 4 Deadly Delusions About Afghanistan Held by Obama's Top Advisors 2009
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It is almost as if there is something about that hard-edged Central Asian country that deranges its occupiers.
Conn Hallinan: Afghanistan: What are These People Thinking? 2009
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The women under the headscarves participate in something that both motivates and deranges their men.
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Roman outline with Venetian color; but love is fatal to his work, love not merely transfixes his heart, but sends his arrow through the brain, deranges the course of his life, and sets the victim describing the strangest zigzags.
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For a man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once.
Studies in Pessimism 2004
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For a man may have the most correct and excellent judgment in everything else but in his own affairs; because here the will at once deranges the intellect.
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Disorder arises through an object acting on one power which acts on another power and deranges it, not through an accident acting upon its own subject.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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