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Webster 1913 Edition
Unhinge
Un-hinge′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ hinge
.] 1.
To take from the hinges;
as, to
. unhinge
a door2.
To displace; to unfix by violence.
Blackmore.
3.
To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle;
as, to
. unhinge
one’s mind or opinions; to unhinge
the nervesWhy 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unhinge
UNHINGE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.2.
To displace; to unfix by violence.3.
To unfix; to loosen; to render unstable or wavering; as, to unhinge the mind; to unhinge opinions.Definition 2024
unhinge
unhinge
English
Verb
unhinge (third-person singular simple present unhinges, present participle unhinging, simple past and past participle unhinged)
- To remove the leaf of a door or a window from its supporting hinges.
- To mentally disturb.
- 2008, Peter Lorge, “The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border”, in Don J. Wyatt, editor, Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-61171-9, pages 59–74 at 67:
- Taizong's failure fooled no one. Indeed, one of Taizong's own sons may well have been unhinged by his father's obvious fratricidal and nepoticidal actions. These personal considerations directly affected Taizong's policy decisions, and thus warrant some discussion.
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Translations
remove a leaf from its supporting hinges
to mentally disturb
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