Unhinge

Definition: Unhinge

Unhinge

Verb

1. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill".

2. Remove the hinges from, as from a door.

Date "unhinge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Unhinge

Synonyms: cark (v), disorder (v), disquiet (v), distract (v), perturb (v), trouble (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arrangement	Unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.
Impotence	Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	May the commands then of a prince be opposed? May he be resisted as often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not right done him? This will unhinge and overturn all polities, and, instead of government and order, leave nothing but anarchy and confusion. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unhinge" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhinge" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	8	124,375

Expressions using "unhinge": unhinge smb. ♦ unhinge smb.'s mind. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "unhinge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		turbulloj (abash, addle, alarm, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disquiet, embarrass, fog, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, perturb, rile, roil, trouble, unsettle), heq nga menteshat. (various references)

Arabic		‏نزع المفصلات عن, ‏وضعضع, ‏خلع بابا من مفصلاته, ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unsettle). (various references)

Czech		vysadit ze závìsù, silnì rozrušit. (various references)

Farsi		مختل کردن (Disarrange, Disorder, Disorganize, Hamper, Queer, Violate), گشودن (Inaugurate, Open, Unfurl, Unlace, Untie, Untwine, Untwist), ازلولادراوردن , دچاراختلال مشاعرکردن , بازکردن (Disclose, Disengage, Disentangle, Evolve, Solve, Splay, Unbend, Unbrace, Undo, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhitch, Unlock, Unpack, Untie, Untwist, Unwreathe). (various references)

French		enlever de ses gonds, déranger (unsettle), démonter (unbend, unhorse, unstitch). (various references)

German		aushängen (hang out, have been put up, post, show, unhook), aus den angeln heben, aus dem gleichgewicht bringen (unbalance). (various references)

Greek		κλονίζω μυαλό, αναστατώ, αφαιρώ τασ στροφίγγασ. (various references)

Hebrew		לערער יציבות � פשית. (various references)

Hungarian		kiakaszt (hang out, threw, thrown, to freak sy out, to hang out, to throw, to unhinge, to unhook, to zap, unhook). (various references)

Italian		scardinare. (various references)

Manx		goaill jeh'n jeushan. (various references)

Pig Latin		ingeunhay

Portuguese		transtornar (derange, disarray, discompose, distune, incommode, unsettle, upset), tirar dos gonzos, perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pother, pull down, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unsettle, upset), desvairar (obsess), desengonçar. (various references)

Russian		снимать с петель, вносить беспорядок (disorganize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skinuti vrata sa šarki, poremetiti (derange, disarrange, disrupt, disturb), pokolebati (stagger). (various references)

Spanish		desquiciar (unsettle). (various references)

Swedish		haka av dörr. (various references)

Turkish		sinir bozmak (annoy, bother, get on one's nerves, irritate, make angry), menteşelerini çıkarmak, menteşelerinden çıkarmak, kararsızlığa düşürmek, aklını oynatmak (go off the rails, run off the rails). (various references)

Ukrainian		розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, derange, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disturb, frustrate, overset, shatter, unfix, unsettle), знімати із завіс. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unhinge": unhinged, unhinges. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unhinge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Buchinger, Ehninger, huningue, Munsingen, Munzinger, uhing, unhinger, unhingle, unige. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unhinge" (pronounced unhi"nj)
4	-h i" n j	hinge.
3	-i" n j	binge, cringe, fringe, impinge, infringe, singe, syringe, tinge, twinge.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-n-n-u"
	-2 letters: ennui, hinge, neigh.
	-3 letters: genu, gien, huge, hung, nigh, nine.
	-4 letters: eng, gen, ghi, gie, gin, gnu, gun, hen, hie, hin, hue, hug, hun, inn, nun, ugh.
	-5 letters: eh, en, he, hi, in, ne, nu, uh, un.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-n-n-u"
	+1 letter: unhinged, unhinges.
	+2 letters: enthusing, hungering, hunkering, quenching, unheeding, unhelming, unmeshing.
	+3 letters: burthening, chuntering, hungriness, roughening, thundering, toughening, unearthing, unhygienic, unleashing, unshelling, unsphering, unteaching, youthening.
	+4 letters: enshrouding, euthanizing, headhunting, keypunching, naughtiness, overhunting, prepunching, relaunching, unbreeching, unclenching, ungarnished, unsheathing, untethering, unthreading, unweighting, unwreathing.
	+5 letters: dehumanizing, guanethidine, hallucinogen, heartburning, hungrinesses, languishment, neighbouring, overhuntings, refurnishing, rehumanizing, thunderingly, truncheoning, unharnessing, unhesitating.
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