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derange

English

Etymology

From French déranger, from Old French desrengier (throw into disorder), from des- + rengier (to put into line), from reng (line, row), from a Germanic source. See rank (noun).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d???e?nd?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /di??e?nd?/
  • Rhymes: -e?nd?

Verb

derange (third-person singular simple present deranges, present participle deranging, simple past and past participle deranged)

  1. (transitive, chiefly passive) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.
  2. (transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.
  3. (archaic) to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone; derail.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Redange, agender, angered, en garde, enraged, grandee, grenade

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confuse

English

Etymology

Back formation from Middle English confused ("frustrated, ruined"), from Anglo-Norman confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confund?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?n?fju?z/
  • Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

confuse (third-person singular simple present confuses, present participle confusing, simple past and past participle confused)

  1. (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
  2. (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
  3. (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
  4. (transitive, dated) To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  6. (intransitive) To be confused.

Synonyms

  • flummox
  • mistake
  • See also Thesaurus:confuse

Related terms

  • confused
  • confusing
  • confusion

Translations

See also

  • discombobulate

References

  • confuse at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • confuse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??.fyz/

Adjective

confuse

  1. feminine singular of confus

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uze

Verb

confuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of confuso

Adjective

confuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of confuso

Verb

confuse

  1. third-person singular past historic of confondere

Latin

Participle

c?nf?se

  1. vocative masculine singular of c?nf?sus

References

  • confuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • confuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confuse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • confuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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