deranging

Definitions

Causing someone to become mentally unbalanced or insane.

Disrupting the normal order, arrangement, or functioning of something.

Examples

The constant noise in the apartment was slowly deranging the tenants.

He feared that the isolation of the desert would have a deranging effect on his mind.

Synonyms

unsettling disturbing disorienting unbalancing unnerving disrupting agitating

Antonyms

stabilizing calming ordering balancing settling organizing clarifying