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狂わす · godan verb (-su)

Meanings

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

drive mad; make insane

Used for causing someone to lose their sanity or mental stability, often through extreme stress, shock, or manipulation.

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

cause a malfunction; put out of order; throw out of kilter

Refers to disrupting the normal functioning of a machine, system, or process, making it behave erratically or stop working correctly.

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

derail (a plan, etc.)

Used when an unexpected event or action disrupts a plan, schedule, or arrangement, causing it to go off course.

〈人ひと〉の心こころを狂くるわすto drive someone out of their mind
彼かの女じょの裏うら切ぎりが彼かれの心こころを狂くるわした。
Her betrayal drove him out of his mind.
〈物もの〉の調ちょう子しを狂くるわすto throw a machine's operation out of order
湿しっ気けが機き械かいの調ちょう子しを狂くるわす。
Humidity throws the machine's performance out of whack.
〈事こと〉を狂くるわすto derail a plan or schedule
台たい風ふうが旅りょ行こうの予よ定ていを狂くるわした。
The typhoon threw off our travel schedule.
〈人ひと〉の判はん断だんを狂くるわすto cloud someone's judgment
恐きょう怖ふが彼かれの判はん断だんを狂くるわした。
Fear clouded his judgment.

狂くるうN3
狂う is the intransitive form meaning 'to go mad/malfunction on its own', while 狂わす is the transitive form meaning 'to cause something to go mad/malfunction'.

狂くるわせる
狂わせる is the modern, everyday causative form with the same meaning as 狂わす, which now sounds slightly more literary or formal.
乱みだすN1sense 2
乱す means to throw something into disorder or confusion in general, while 狂わす specifically implies pushing something past its normal, correct functioning (mind, machine, or plan).

壊こわすN4sense 2
壊す means to physically break or destroy something, whereas 狂わす means to disrupt its normal function or a person's sanity without necessarily damaging it physically.

Transitive form of 狂う (くるう, 'to go mad, to be out of order'), formed by adding the causative/transitivizing suffix -す to the stem 狂わ-.