unhinge
verb (used with object)
to remove (a door or the like) from hinges.
has unhinged
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present perfectof unhinge (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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So irrational does his behavior seem to some that they have suggested that pandemic-induced isolation has unhinged him, heightening his paranoia and aggrievement.
From Washington Post ā Feb. 24, 2022
Short, horrible stories sometimes attach themselves to traumatised patients, but none of its victims is able to talk about what has unhinged them.
From The Guardian ā Aug. 17, 2012
Ah, no, my poor friend, too much meat has unhinged your reason!
From A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick
But so, on revising, I wrote before.—But she has unhinged me, as you call it: pretended to catechise Hickman, I assure you, for contributing to our supposed correspondence.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady ā Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
Theodore, or a phantom, he has unhinged the soul of Manfred.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
