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Meanings of unhinged in English
Affected with madness or insanity.
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Examples for "sick"
Examples for "sick"
1
The effect of the sudden presence in the sick-room was most marked.
2
By personal contact of the sick with the well, especially in kissing.
3
The sick were healed in answer to his prayer of simple faith.
4
He took particular interest in the sick, crippled and poorly nourished children.
5
Many were sick; more were discontented; and all longed wearily for land.
1
She was not mad; she took clothes; she left everything in order.
2
All the world was mad and she was the maddest in it.
3
It's a beautiful course with plenty of distractions for the less horse-mad.
4
The capital and the whole nation went mad with hatred and fear.
5
Once again the mad joy of the battle was in my veins.
1
The word I'd use is 'ordinary.' But she had some crazy-ass ideas.
2
Better get help; he's crazy.' 'I'll send for the bos'n,' Steen said.
3
Minutes after downing the food, I was feeling more batshit-stir-crazy than ever.
4
I spend my time in complaining; my aunt says I am crazy.
5
And to tell you the truth, he really is sort of half-crazy.'
1
Though not above vote fraud, he considered violence counterproductive; it disturbed unnecessarily.
2
Industries were disturbed by strikes; he pressed arbitration upon capital and labor.
3
Photograph: Handout Its rise to prominence has disturbed many Iraqi political leaders.
4
You have seen enough to know that the elements are deeply disturbed.
5
He couldn't exactly say what it was, but Serenio's answer disturbed him.
1
Parents were often distracted or trying to juggle work with home schooling.
2
Step one: keep distracted in the hallway in case he passed me.
3
Returning home, he wandered around for days, distracted, his mission focus lost.
4
At times five different sessions are vying for the distracted delegate's attention.
5
Plan ahead to keep yourself busy with or distracted by something new!
1
Conclusion: Irrespective of antibiotic treatment, pneumonia causes substantial suffering in demented patients.
2
In religion he was a fanatic; he was a demented fanatic now.
3
The two were beside a wood-pile and the demented one was crying.
4
But in truth she was demented now, forgetting even the bleeding lover.
5
She would have to be demented to think what she was thinking.
1
However, unbalanced data sets resulted in an increase in the false-positive rate.
2
Economic development in Ireland over the past 20 years has been unbalanced.
3
It's geographically unbalanced too; medical resources are concentrated in wealthier urban areas.
4
World economic growth becomes more unbalanced and the terms of trade widen.
5
That this paper readily prints his unbalanced diatribes is even more astounding.
1
See to him, Vallancey; he is brainsick with the fumes of war.
2
She was so fierce, I am not sure she is not a little brainsick.'
3
That's when you know they're brainsick-corruptedfiles, scratched or warped drives, blown logic circuits, or overheating chips.
4
I was worth more to him than all the other wrecks and brainsick wanderers out here combined.
5
The brainsick all know that.
Usage of unhinged in English
1
The brief market crash rattled investors already unhinged by the financial crisis.
2
He was unhinged by a sense that he wouldn't survive the war.
3
It's not that your career or job is unhinged literally, per se.
4
Not yet was his spirit broken; not yet was his mind unhinged.
5
Sir, -Has The Irish Times become a bit or totally unhinged?
6
The Lewis Carroll version managed to be unhinged while still remaining sober.
7
Everyone in show business is a bit unhinged, he tells Michael Dwyer.
8
Think back on the most unhinged screen moments of Nicolas Cage's career.
9
He unhinged his jaw and was quickly submerged in the century-old clay.
10
Could her mind not have been unhinged by reason of the miscarriage?
11
If he shouted, he would come off on television as abrasive, unhinged.
12
The shock which she has undergone has, I think, unhinged her mind.
13
The door of the oven suddenly dropped open like an unhinged jaw.
14
The man was staring at him fixedly, with an almost unhinged intensity.
15
The loss of his fortune had, no doubt, unhinged this shareholder's reason.
16
Her indifference to their extremity began to play on Frederic's unhinged nerves.
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Unhinged across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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