derank

Verb

derank (third-person singular simple present deranks, present participle deranking, simple past and past participle deranked)

1. To inflect into a form that cannot be used in independent declarative clauses.
   • In normal English speech one usually deranks "he should go" to "to go", as in "I told him where to go."
   • In this language, syntactic sequences with identical subjects derank the second predicate into a subjunctive form, which is characterized by the presenece of a specific particle a and special rules for the placement of pronouns.1984, Journal of semantics - Volume 3, page 164
2. To strip of rank; demote.
   • "I remember one time," he said, brushing my boots aside, "when I had trouble like this with an M.O. He was going to have me arrested and deranked and marched out and so on and so on. Nothin' came of it."1950, As You Were, page 68
   • The uproarious laughter coming from the back of our truck provided small consolation although one kind hearted signaller did point out that it was an honour to be deranked by such a famous General.1989 -, Lindsay Thompson, I Remember, page 10
3. (broadly) To demote; to give a lower position within a hierarchy.
   • If they do not qualify within thirty days, they are to be so notified and deranked to their former position.1913, The Car Worker - Volume 11, Issue 9 - Volume 12, Issue 9, page 6
   • An Engineer shall not be dismissed, suspended, deranked, nor shall an entry be made against his efficiency record without sufficient cause, and not then until after a fair and formal investigation has been held, if he desires it.1915, Western railroads arbitration, Exhibits Presented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
4. To lower or remove achievements and skill level.
   • A building will derank one level at a time as its hitpoints are whittled away. So, while it may seem that the life bar is at its end, attackers need to take into account if they are merely deranking the building by one or whether they have taken it down to Rank1 and are about to destroy the...2003, John Henderson, BradyGames, & Danielle Vanderlip, Shadowbane Official Strategy Guide, →ISBN, page 295
   • Derank lobbies were used to damage and undermine the statistical profiles and removing the associated unlocks of players lured into playing them, initially those deemed to have played inapproprately by illegitimately improving their profiles by modding. While this may have been an act of...2015, Alan F. Meades, Understanding Counterplay in Video Games, →ISBN, page 60
5. To lower or remove an official ranking or accreditation.
   • The introduction of purchased animals from herds which have not been tested, the “over-the-fence intimacy of tested animals with cattle which had not been tested, and the feeding of milk to young stock on accredited farms which had been purchased from neighboring farmers whose herds had never been...1921, Holstein-Friesian World - Volume 18, Issue 1, page 46
   • Isn't there a time to justify a species' gradual deranking from the top of the priority list in favour of another at the bottom?1987, The Forestry chronicle - Volume 63, page 230
6. To lower the status or importance of
   • The reply to this objection is that the inability to suffer is the worst punishment that can befall a man ; he is by that same thing deranked from humanity ; the lowest hell into which a man can fall is that hell where there is no feeling, the hell in which a man may be without knowing it.1913, William Edwin Orchard, Sermons on God, Christ and man, page 224
   • An intriguing reconstruction of the liberal arts follows, designed for the age of democracy and technology, deranking but retaining the classics and humanizing the study of science.1973, Intellect - Volume 102, page 194