derange

derange is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
2. transitive verb. To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.
3. transitive verb. To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
4. verb. throw into great confusion or disorder

   "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"

   Synonyms: perturb

5. verb. derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane

   "The death of his parents unbalanced him"

   Synonyms: unbalance

Synonyms

perturb, unbalance

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in derange:

agender, angered, engarde, enraged, gerenda, grandee, grenade

Common word forms

deranged, deranger, deranges, deranging, derangeable, derangement

Words from these letters

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