unhinged; unhinging; unhinges
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2
: to remove from the hinges
unhinge a door
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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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2025
Elon Musk is attending Trump's cabinet meeting & the media is unhinged.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
The skies are a lot less friendly to fly with a balding, unhinged Mark Wahlberg in the pilot seat.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
Jim Carrey is appropriately unhinged as The Riddler, and Tommy Lee Jones puts in a compelling performance as Two-Face.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for unhinge
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“Unhinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unhinge. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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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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