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deranged (adjective), more deranged, most deranged
1. Descriptive of someone who is disturbed or upset mentally; insane, crazy: Margaret's deranged brother was unable to think or to act in a normal or logical way after being rescued from drowning when his boat sank in the ocean.
2. Etymology: from French déranger, from Old French desrengier, literally "move from orderly rows".
Relating to being mentally abnormal and illogical.
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(Latin: madness; crazy, rave, deranged; literally, to go off the furrow; from delirare, "to turn aside from the furrow", whence arose the meanings "to deviate, to become deranged, to be crazy, or to be delirious")