derange
verb (used with object)
to throw into disorder; disarrange.
had deranged
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past perfectof derange.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“No. How very easily alarmed you are!” he answered, removing his cloak and hanging it up against the door, towards which he again coolly pushed the mat which his entrance had deranged.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Either Guitar’s disappointment with the gold that was not there was so deep it had deranged him, or his “work” had done it.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
The bolt of lightning, setting fire to the pine, had deranged all of his plans.
From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall
Yet Froude says that when Burke "took up the Irish cause at last in earnest, it was with a brain which the French Revolution had deranged, and his interference became infinitely mischievous."
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
Possibly the motion of the boat had deranged their systems.
From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
