détraquer

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French

Etymology

From dé- +‎ Middle French trac +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.tʁa.ke/
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Verb

détraquer

  1. (transitive) to upset, wreck
  2. (transitive) to unsettle
    • 1871, Émile Zola, La Fortune des Rougon, page 138:
      Rien ne détraque autant un esprit qu’une pareille instruction, faite à bâtons rompus, ne reposant sur aucune base solide. Le plus souvent, ces miettes de science donnent une idée absolument fausse des hautes vérités, et rendent les pauvres d’esprit insupportables de carrure bête.
      Nothing so derails a mind as like instruction, offered haphazardly, resting on no solid basis. More often than not, these crumbs of knowledge give an absolutely false impression of noble truths and renders the weak-witted unbearably, unshakably stupid.

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