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Deranges
- verb - derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane; "The death of his parents unbalanced him"
- throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
Derating
- verb - lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus
Derdoing
- - Doing daring or chivalrous deeds.
Derelict
- adjective - a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- failing in what duty requires;
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
Deriding
- verb - treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"
Derision
- noun - contemptuous laughter
- the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Derisive
- adjective - abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
Derisory
- adjective - incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"