become deranged

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Three years afterwards, a wan, wasted, spectral-looking figure might be seen wandering about in the vicinity of Hjerting; it was the unfortunate Ebbe, who had become deranged.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

Our mother was alive, though our father had been dead many years, and she used to say that the poor woman must have become deranged at the death of her child.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

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 Lang, Andrew

Cross-examined.—I supposed when I first went into the room that her influence over the child had caused the child to become deranged.

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware

No, impossible! or he may have become deranged and ran into the woods.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe