unhinged; unhinging; unhinges
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2
: to remove from the hinges
unhinge a door
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Examples of unhinge in a Sentence
the endless harassment by the guards completely unhinged the prisoners of war
I was momentarily unhinged by the unexpected question.
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Still, the crowing jewel of the series is the diabolically and maniacally unhinged Princess Mary.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2024
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My focus has been to chronicle the relationship between fire and humans, an alliance that has remade, and unhinged, the planet.
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So Ben’s dad gets involved, calling in the big guns in the form of Knox (real-life UFC fighter Conor McGregor), one of the more gleefully unhinged villains in recent memory.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2024
The general consensus was that Trump was unhinged and Biden did fine.
—Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
My focus has been to chronicle the relationship between fire and humans, an alliance that has remade, and unhinged, the planet.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
So Ben’s dad gets involved, calling in the big guns in the form of Knox (real-life UFC fighter Conor McGregor), one of the more gleefully unhinged villains in recent memory.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Unhinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unhinge. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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unhinge
verb
un·hinge
ˌən-ˈhinj 
1
: unsettle sense 2, disrupt
a mind unhinged by grief
2
: to remove (as a door) from the hinges
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