be deranged

Frequency: 6.56.1 per million words

Describes a state of being mentally unstable.

derangedVERB + deranged

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Examples (10)

  • They took her into hospital because she was mentally deranged.
  • The main character in the horror movie is completely deranged.
  • After years of solitary confinement, the man was found to be deranged.
  • People might think you are deranged if you talk to yourself in public.
  • The court concluded that the attacker was clearly deranged and unfit to stand trial.
  • "You must be deranged to invest all your money in that scheme!" she exclaimed.
  • He is not evil, just profoundly and sadly deranged.
  • Can a person who is legally deranged still make a valid will?
  • The diary entries revealed a mind that was deranged by grief.
  • It was the kind of terrifying plan that only a person who is truly deranged could devise.