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unhinged

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Unhinged is a 1982 American exploitation slasher film directed by Don Gronquist, written by Gronquist and Reagan Ramsey. The film follows three young women who are taken in by a mysterious family at their rural mansion after getting into a car accident. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Not furnished with a hinge. 2 (context philately of a stamp English) Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge. 3 (context usually humorous English) Mentally ill. v (en-past of: unhinge )

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick , crazy , demented , distracted , disturbed , mad , sick , unbalanced ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thrown into confusion," 1719, past participle adjective from unhinge .

Usage examples of unhinged.

He simply could not withstand too many spiralings down into the grave, artificial or real, without being thoroughly unhinged by them.

She began to fear that the effect of the rip in space had somehow unhinged him.

With this in mind he backed off across the cell, then hurled his over 300 pounds of bone and corded muscle against the unhinged side of the door.

They unhinged their disturbing mouths and long feathered tongues unrolled towards the rooftops.

I said, my own voice pinched thin by stress, fear, and the unhinged craziness of the past hour.

I lay awake so long thinking of this, that I felt that my judgment was getting slightly unhinged,--that, in short, I was wandering on the subject.

Roddy, not to allow that the shock may have unhinged his mind for a time?

It is as if all the customary decorous forms went up in smoke, and we now see a carnival of raving, unhinged subjects.

Light, her wits must have been totally unhinged by her experiences not to see that!

I was aware that the creature might be a waking delusion, that it could have been the blow to the head that killed my friend - but it was the uncertainty that nearly unhinged me, the total loss of trust in my own senses.

If he unhinged now, he could probably swallow the leader before the others reacted.

With a last regretful glance at the dying animal, he unhinged his jaw and finned off to the south-east.

All the people drank out of the common pot thereafter, and all became common, and unhinged and undirected, and a little bit trashy.