MEANING
1. To greatly unsettle someone's composure or mental stability.
2. To detach a door, panel, or similar object from its hinges.
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Words that belong together
- unhinged by fear
- unhinge someone's confidence
On the page
The repeated knocking nearly unhinged her.
He feared the accusation would unhinge the confidence holding the group together.
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Word forms
- Base
- unhinge
- Past tense
- unhinged
- Past participle
- unhinged
- Present participle
- unhinging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- unhinge
- Present continuous
- am/is/are unhinging
- Present perfect
- have/has unhinged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been unhinging
- Past
- unhinged
- Past continuous
- was/were unhinging
- Past perfect
- had unhinged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been unhinging
- Future
- will unhinge
- Future continuous
- will be unhinging
- Future perfect
- will have unhinged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been unhinging
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: unhinge; unhinges; unhinged; unhinged; unhinging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: unhinges.
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