What does "derank" mean?

To inflect into a form that cannot be used in independent declarative clauses.

Derank

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To inflect into a form that cannot be used in independent declarative clauses.
"In normal English speech one usually deranks "he should go" to "to go", as in "I told him where to go.""
2
To strip of rank; demote.
""I remember one time," he said, brushing my boots aside, "when I had trouble like this with an M.O. He was going to have me arrested and deranked and marched out and so on and so on. Nothin' came of it.""
3
To demote; to give a lower position within a hierarchy. broadly
"If they do not qualify within thirty days, they are to be so notified and deranked to their former position."
4
To lower or remove achievements and skill level.
"A building will derank one level at a time as its hitpoints are whittled away. So, while it may seem that the life bar is at its end, attackers need to take into account if they are merely deranking the building by one or whether they have taken it down to Rank1 and are about to destroy the building."
5
To lower or remove an official ranking or accreditation.
"The introduction of purchased animals from herds which have not been tested, the “over-the-fence intimacy of tested animals with cattle which had not been tested, and the feeding of milk to young stock on accredited farms which had been purchased from neighboring farmers whose herds had never been tested resulted in the deranking of these, erstwhile accredited herds."

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6
To lower the status or importance of
"The reply to this objection is that the inability to suffer is the worst punishment that can befall a man ; he is by that same thing deranked from humanity ; the lowest hell into which a man can fall is that hell where there is no feeling, the hell in which a man may be without knowing it."

"In normal English speech one usually deranks "he should go" to "to go", as in "I told him where to go.""

From de- + rank.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.