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deranging

deranging adjective: causing derangement; disruptive of mental or social stability. Also the present participle and gerund of derange.

Adjective

deranging (comparative more deranging, superlative most deranging)

  1. Causing derangement; disruptive of mental or social stability.
    • It offends against Christian ethics by not tracing the grounds of human obligation to their ultimate source in God; but while Buddhism equally fails in this respect, its teachings, if practically carried out, in magnifying the duty of retiring from the world to escape its evils, and to make...1888 August, D. Z. Sheffield, “"The Light of Asia and the Light of the World", by S. H. Kellogg, D.D.–A Review.”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 19, number 8, page 351
    • The nightmare on the shucks experienced by young Bayard becomes, in Sanctuary, exponentially more deranging.2010, Philip Weinstein, Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner, page 92

Also used as

deranging is also the present participle and gerund of derange.

Examples of deranging in a sentence

  • Over-communication can be more deranging than cannabis ...2012, John Naish, Enough:
  • I had never taken a drug more deranging than aspirin and the milder antibiotics.2014, Judith Eubank, Crossover:

Forms of deranging

comparativemore deranging
superlativemost deranging

Words formed from deranging

Questions about deranging

What does deranging mean?
Deranging means causing derangement; disruptive of mental or social stability.
How do you use deranging in a sentence?
Over-communication can be more deranging than cannabis ...
What part of speech is deranging?
Deranging is an adjective.

Words near deranging in the dictionary

  1. derangement syndromes
  2. derangements
  3. deranger
  4. derangers
  5. deranges
  6. deranging
  7. derangingly
  8. derank
  9. deranked
  10. deranking
  11. derankings

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