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Uncenter

Uncenter \Un*cen"ter\, Uncentre \Un*cen"tre\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + center.] To throw from its center.

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uncenter

vb. (alternative form of uncentre English)

Usage examples of "uncenter".

Control was somewhere uncentered, behind her eyes and beyond her fingers, as if she were drawn on a beautiful silver wire where it was best to go.

I had spent my entire childhood in shouting distance of Shyla and I felt uncentered without her in the middle of my own life.

Her sense of her body became ever more tentative as her self came uncentered, and her will to live frayed.

The counselor tried the stab of the mind again, but she was uncentered and unsure, and the blow missed.

She was sick of hearing the name Ida Durbin and also sick of hearing the kind of vague, uncentered information I had been offering her.

Her uncentered weight nearly knocked both herself and her partner to the floor.

Brown entered and strode to the middle of the room, looking round it through heavy glasses which diffused the pupils of his eyes into uncentered shapes.

Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky.

I found it challenging to give her an accurate account of his odd humanity, his unique philosophy, and his uncentered morality, but Naoko seemed finally to grasp what I was trying to tell her.

In the dreary fluxations of space travel he prepared renditions of the essay in all the remaining dialects of Earth, since the nullification could not be considered complete until every thinkable center of imaginative notions had been uncentered.