Crossword clues for unhinge
unhinge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unhinge \Un*hinge"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + hinge.]
To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.
To displace; to unfix by violence.
--Blackmore.-
To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves.
Why should I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind?
--South.His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind.
--Walpole.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To mentally disturb. 2 To remove the hinges from.
WordNet
Usage examples of "unhinge".
As the light brightened and more faces rose to be locked, phototropic, the splendor unhinged some people.
Moving at a speed that awes, their legs taller than the tallest men, unhinging, stiff unguligrade motion of spasms and lurching, turning by pinpoint acrobatics, twisting on their hooves.
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.
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.
Hence my fury when Andromeda, herself unhinged by wrath, tore open the chest-lid just off Hydra and threw them to the fish.