取り乱す

Meaning

1. v5svi
   to be upset; to lose one's composure; to lose self-control; to go to pieces; to be shaken up; to break down; to be flustered; to blow one's cool
2. v5svt
   to put in disorder; to mess up; to disturb; to scatter about

Example sentences

• 彼はその悲報を取り乱さずに聞いた。

  He heard the ill tidings without emotion.

• ボブは酷く取り乱していて、現実と虚構の区別がほとんど出来なかった。

  Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.

• その男は、終身刑であると裁判官が判決を下した時、取り乱した。

  The man went to pieces when the judge said he would have to go to prison for life.