derangement
pronunciation
How to pronounce derangement in British English:
UK [dɪ'reɪndʒmənt]
How to pronounce derangement in American English:
US [dɪˈrendʒmənt]
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- Noun:
- a state of mental disturbance and disorientation
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
Word Origin
- derangement (n.)
- 1737, "disturbance of regular order," from French dérangement (17c.), from déranger (see derange). Of mental order, from 1800.
Example
- 1. The author suffers from derangement and insanity .
- 2. To the systematic derangement of our senses .
- 3. Derangement of anterior horn of medial meniscus .
- 4. This one who want to kill me has mental derangement .
- 5. Collagen turnover rate of internal derangement craniomandibular disorder patients .