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See Cundurango.

See Krang.

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.

Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.

The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.

One who deranges.

To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

To free from wrangling or litigation. [Obs.] Berkeley.

To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.

To range in order; to put in rank; to arrange. [Obs.] Spenser.

reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

One who estranges.

To strangle. [Obs.]

Causing fracture; breaking. [R.] H. Walpole.

The state or quality of being frangible. Fox.