Word Meanings - UNHINGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains,

Additional info about word: UNHINGE

1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind South. His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind. Walpole.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNHINGE)

• Enervate
• Weaken
• enfeeble
• unnerve
• deteriorate
• debilitate
• relax
• unstring
• unhinge
• Warp
• Turn
• twist
• shrink
• give
• contort
• bias
• distort
• prejudice
• corrupt
• narrow
• pervert

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNHINGE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to UNHINGE)

• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• UNHINGE
  1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains,
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• UNNERVE
  To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• REPURIFY
  To purify again.