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Meanings of unhinged in English

Affected with madness or insanity.

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Usage of unhinged in English
1
The brief market crash rattled investors already unhinged by the financial crisis.
Reuters
2
He was unhinged by a sense that he wouldn't survive the war.
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3
It's not that your career or job is unhinged literally, per se.
Ebony
4
Not yet was his spirit broken; not yet was his mind unhinged.
A History of the Moravian Church
5
Sir, -Has The Irish Times become a bit or totally unhinged?
The Irish Times
6
The Lewis Carroll version managed to be unhinged while still remaining sober.
The Irish Times
7
Everyone in show business is a bit unhinged, he tells Michael Dwyer.
The Irish Times
8
Think back on the most unhinged screen moments of Nicolas Cage's career.
The Irish Times
9
He unhinged his jaw and was quickly submerged in the century-old clay.
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
10
Could her mind not have been unhinged by reason of the miscarriage?
The Guardian
11
If he shouted, he would come off on television as abrasive, unhinged.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
12
The shock which she has undergone has, I think, unhinged her mind.
Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots
13
The door of the oven suddenly dropped open like an unhinged jaw.
The waste lands
14
The man was staring at him fixedly, with an almost unhinged intensity.
The Golem and the Jinni
15
The loss of his fortune had, no doubt, unhinged this shareholder's reason.
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16
Her indifference to their extremity began to play on Frederic's unhinged nerves.
The Rim of the Desert
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Unhinged across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common