Definition of "deranging" [deranging]

• Present participle of derange. (verb)

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• "Popular usage has so colored the word "deranging" that its use is almost always pejorative."
• "They want the American republic to declare its independence of market riptides that are deranging the old journalism and that are governing the government."
• "EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew."