Deranging
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Deranging is an adjective meaning Causing derangement; disruptive of mental or social stability.
Meaning
Causing derangement; disruptive of mental or social stability.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of derange
Example Sentences
Over-communication can be more deranging than cannabis .
I had never taken a drug more deranging than aspirin and the milder antibiotics.
The nightmare on the shucks experienced by young Bayard becomes, in Sanctuary, exponentially more deranging.
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 progress in virtue, would prove more deranging and disintegrating to society than those of Confucianism, and so less in harmony with the true standard of social ethics.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perturb, unbalance, dementing, disturbing, derailing, distressing.
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