become deranged
Example Sentences
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Then there was plainly discernible a great whirring and flapping, as if a windmill had become deranged in its economy, and was laboring "without a conscience or an aim."
From The Mark Of Cain by Andrew Lang
Had my brain become deranged, causing a strange, an amazing hallucination?
From The Four Faces A Mystery by William Le Queux
Q.--If any of the working parts of a locomotive break or become deranged, what should be done?
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.
The phrase, to wring, is also applied to a capstan when by an undue strain the component parts of the wood become deranged, and are thereby disunited.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
You need not laugh at this statement or think that my mind has suddenly become deranged, I merely state a fact.
From Three Months of My Life by J. F. Foster
