derange

Verb

derange (third-person singular simple present deranges, present participle deranging, simple past and past participle deranged)

1. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
2. (transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
   • Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society;1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
3. (transitive) To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.
   • 4-16. All lighting was cut off by a close detonation but was partially restored after a short while. Many auxiliary motors were short-circuited or deranged. There were at least nineteen cracked jars in the forward battery and one in the after battery, causing loss of electrolyte and full grounds....1949 January 1, Bureau of Ships, “U.S.S. PERCH (SS176), Loss in Action, Java Sea, 3 March 1942”, in Submarine Report: Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine, Torpedo and Gunfire Damage, Including Losses in Action...
4. (archaic) To disrupt (somebody's) plans, to inconvenience; to derail.
   • "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body."1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress
   • A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost Special