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Unhinged   /ənhˈɪndʒd/   Listen
Unhinged

adjective
1.
Affected with madness or insanity.  Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced.



Unhinge

verb
1.
Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.  Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble.
2.
Remove the hinges from.






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"Unhinged" Quotes from Famous Books



... for I was momentarily unhinged, "you see you must put things that way to get Miss Irma to help us. She can do anything with my father, and I believe she could with yours too ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett

... in sleep. The fears that possessed him, that she herself had held so finely in check when they had followed Banks on this glacier, did not trouble her now. Her indifference to their extremity began to play on Frederic's unhinged nerves. This white, blue-lipped woman was not the Beatriz Weatherbee he had known; who had climbed the slope with him that morning, all exhilaration, spirit, charm; whose example had challenged his endurance and held his courage to ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

... Lucie had never been out of Doctor Manette's sight. Now, though he was glad for her happiness, yet he felt the pain of the separation so keenly that it unhinged his mind again. Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry found him next morning making shoes at the old prison bench and for nine days he did not know them at all. At last, however, he recovered, and then, lest the sight of it affect him, ...
— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

... bathing suit. He and Jack unhinged a stateroom door, carrying it up through the conning tower. Hal, in the meantime, under orders, had attended to bringing the "Pollard's" platform ...
— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham

... and seemed to be trying to do as he directed, for her nostrils dilated as if in an effort to breathe deeply. He wished she would speak. He dreaded that her mind might be unhinged. ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici


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