All 4 Uses of
deranged
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Quite a few were deranged.
p. 194.6deranged = mentally imbalanced
- Though there were hundreds of POWs in camp, this deranged corporal was fixated on Louie, hunting the former Olympian, whom he would call "number one prisoner."
p. 241.1
- He stormed and frothed, seeming completely deranged.
p. 282.2 *deranged = crazy (out of control)
- His last campaign, in the Pennsylvania town of Altoona, had met with heckling, meager attendance, and a hollering, deranged choir member who had had to be thrown out of his services, only to return repeatedly, like a fly to spilled jelly.
p. 370.3deranged = mentally imbalanced
Definitions:
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(1)
(deranged as in: a deranged madman) mentally imbalanced -- often dangerously
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(2)
(deranged as in: deranged hair) in disorder