derangement

[ UK /dɪɹˈe‍ɪnd‍ʒmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. a state of mental disturbance and disorientation
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How To Use derangement In A Sentence

  • In a functional way the derangement may be brought about from overwork or underwork. Appendicitis
  • But then again I thin we are already there (hint-hint fundamental derangement is showing, defective contact with reality especially as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior) Clinton looks to Puerto Rico to boost her campaign
  • She'd become, she supposed, the local eccentric; the woman who'd come back from the wilds of Hollywood in a state of mental derangement. COLDHEART CANYON
  • Amid the derangements of Dada and abstract expressionism she reverted to tradition.
  • Thus, the combination of obesity with a genetically-based insulin derangement, may reveal latent diabetes.
  • This type of lymphangitis is associated with, or the result of, a derangement of digestion. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • He's apparently unbelievable at doing the possessed Curtis dance, where the quietest of men would suddenly explode into compressed derangement.
  • Setting the question of Christianity aside, experience shows that the attempt to orientalize Occidentals may prove no less disastrous than the attempt to occidentalize Orientals, and that to transport Eastern mysticism to the West is to vulgarize it and to produce a debased form of occultism that frequently ends in moral deterioration or mental derangement. [ Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
  • He found her comatose with evidence of decortication, a condition relating to derangement of the cortex of the brain causing a physical posture in which the upper extremities are flexed and the lower extremities are extended. Law In The Health and Human Services
  • This must be secret, for to my other misfortunes pecuniary derangement is not the least. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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