derange
verb (used with object)
to throw into disorder; disarrange.
have deranged
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present perfectof derange.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Such therapies could even be focused on specific subsets of patients whose bodies are responding bizarrely to the virus, Dr. Blish said: “the ones who have deranged cytokines from the beginning.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
To have deranged a single taw would, in my mind, have been a sacrilege as great as an attempt to upset the balance of the Copernican system.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
While occupied in listening to the tale, of his distresses, the Supply returned from Norfolk Island, with an account that was of itself almost sufficient to have deranged the strongest intellect among us.
"I am desolated to have deranged Madame,"—gold coin changed hands.—"A lady came to see Mademoiselle this morning, is it not?"
From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Even victory would have deranged all his deeply meditated schemes of policy.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
