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UK
/dɪɹˈeɪndʒmənt/
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NOUN
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the act of disturbing the mind or body
she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living
his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset - a state of mental disturbance and disorientation
How To Use derangement In A Sentence
- Stem cell technology may produce cures for Alzheimer's disease; vascular growth factors may enable the body to produce its own cardiac bypasses; and the elimination of metabolic derangements may cure phenylketonuria and diabetes.
- For all the freak imagery and wanton derangement, there was a certain plausibility to the pop stars of the sixties.
- He seemed to be on the verge of total derangement.
- But that's as nothing compared with personality derangement. PASSION IN THE PEAK
- Every derangement of the page-space deftly mimes the current derangement of the house-space in the narrative.
- The Weekly Standard and Martin Peretz of The New Republic of "psychopathic derangement" over what he characterizes as their insensitivity toward civilian deaths. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- This split is a kind of derangement which must reflect some significant emotional deficits in his childhood. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- That is very likely to have occurred in the case of some of the writers of the New Testament; that there is such a derangement is a fact. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
- However I don't see how your arguments can be enhanced by the use of words such as derangement to describe the opinions who disagree with you can be at all persuasive. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
- At other times he felt morally sure that she shared that derangement of the bivalvular organ technically defined as "a muscular viscus which is the primary instrument of the blood's motion," whose worst pains are said to be worth more than the greatest pleasures. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
