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• v  derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane
• v  throw into great confusion or disorder
• s  driven insane

• For Canadian deranged-genius filmmaker Guy Maddin, every day is an If Day: his movies transform his hometown reality into comedy-dramas of sibling rivalry and family life that .
• The police and other authorities who searched his home and his life in the next 72 hours found plenty of clues to a deranged mind.
• Lo (Maxime Collin), 12, is nourished by this conviction as he watches his deranged Qubecois brood mismanage their lives.

• unbalance
• derange
• perturb
• throw out of kilter
• crazed
• half-crazed

News & Articles

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• Disarming EMT hero
  A hero EMT disarmed a deranged man who wrestled a gun away from an NYPD cop and used it to shoot another officer in the foot outside Harlem Hospital, officials said. Officers Fausto Gomez and John Chiodi were bringing Guyteau Idore, 41, into the hospital at about 5:30 a...
  June 11, 2013 - New York Post
• 'Magic Magic' Trailer: Michael Cera Ups His Creep Game
  Hopefully, with the recent return of the Arrested Development , you got your fix of Michael Cera as a sheepish, kind-hearted nerd because in his next movie, he's a long way from being typecast. In Magic Magic , Cera plays a creepy, deranged sociopath (you can tell from because of the dark hair) who kills things, laughs maniacally, and torments poor Juno Temple on her South American vacation ...
  June 11, 2013 - Zimbio
• Trailer of the Week: James McAvoy as a Deranged, Perverted, Violent and Corrupt Policeman in New Trailer for 'Filth'
  Before the Trailer We Thought: The UK trailer for this film adaptation of "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name dropped in April, promising a deranged James McAvoy snorting and screwing his way through Edinburgh. We were sold then. And Now? Still sold. Running a full minute longer that the first promo, the new international trailer fleshes out the film's plot, features a ...
  June 7, 2013 - indieWIRE

Quotes

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• Tom Ridge in Guardian Unlimited
  This was out-and-out murder,Ridge said. "This was a horribly, horribly deranged young man."
• Michael Bloomberg in New York Magazine
  Bloomberg told Katie Couric he thinks it could have been a domestic terrorist acting alone: "If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't...
• Jack Roush in SI.com
  When the president of Iran calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, or asks for a world without Zionism, or suggests that Israel's population return to Europe, or calls the Holocaust a myth, we are dealing with a possibly deranged and surely... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ New York Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/nyregion/11pataki.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGW4KJx2Akg6z_gRUCtnHTOKJWnkg Dec 10, 2006 26680 35465 derangement He expected to step into Kurt Busch's program and take off, and when it didn't happen, it certainly hurt his confidence," Roush said. "But he's gotten some counseling, not for mental derangement, but on how to make the best of his...