deranging

English

Adjective

deranging (comparative more deranging, superlative most deranging)

1. Causing derangement; disruptive of mental or social stability.
   • 1888 August, D. Z. Sheffield, “"The Light of Asia and the Light of the World", by S. H. Kellogg, D.D.–A Review.”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 19, number 8, page 351:

     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.

   • 2010, Philip Weinstein, Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner, page 92:

     The nightmare on the shucks experienced by young Bayard becomes, in Sanctuary, exponentially more deranging.

   • 2012, John Naish, Enough:

     Over-communication can be more deranging than cannabis ...

   • 2014, Judith Eubank, Crossover:

     I had never taken a drug more deranging than aspirin and the milder antibiotics.

Derived terms

• derangingly

 

Verb

deranging

1. present participle and gerund of derange

Anagrams

• dangering, gandering, gardening, grenading