unhinged

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of unhinge

Adjective

(comparative more unhinged, superlative most unhinged)

(philately) (of a stamp) not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
(usually humorous) Mentally ill.

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Memon, obsessed with the writhing creature, unhinged his jaw and swallowed it slowly, his eyes closed.
Civil war was raging in France, and Clement became an ardent partisan of the League; his mind appears to have become unhinged by religious fanaticism, and he talked of exterminating the heretics, and formed a plan to kill Henry III.

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