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Derange vs Defeat - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between derange and defeat

is that derange is to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged while defeat is to overcome in battle or contest.

As a noun defeat is

the act of defeating or being defeated.

derange

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • to cause someone to go insane (usually used in the passive, see deranged )
  • to cause disorder in something, to distort it from its ideal state
  • * 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
    • Both these kinds of monopolies derange more or less the natural distribution of the stock of the society;
  • (archaic) to disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone
  • * 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, Memoirs of an Heiress
    • "By no means, Sir," answered the Captain: "I shall be quite au désespoir if I derange any body."

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    defeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overcome in battle or contest.
    • Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  • To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
  • * Tillotson
    • He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
  • * A. W. Ward
    • In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
  • To nullify
  • * Hallam
    • The escheators defeated the right heir of his succession.

    Synonyms

    (To overcome in contest) * beat * conquer * overthrow * rout * vanquish

    Related terms

    * defeasance * defeasible * defeater * defeatism * defeatist * defeature

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of defeating or being defeated.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.}}