Use 'unhinge' to describe a significant disturbance to someone's mental state or emotions, often temporarily.

Mental Disruption

'Unhinge' in a mental context is usually not literal but figurative, implying loss of control rather than physical detachment.

Figurative Sense

When 'unhinge' refers to mental state, it often carries a negative and intense emotional connotation.

Emotional Charge

Use 'unhinge' for the physical act of detaching something from its hinge or point of attachment.

Physical Action

'Unhinge' is often used in do-it-yourself and repair contexts, mostly with items that are meant to be opened.

DIY Context

The action of unhinging usually implies that the item will be reattached later.

Temporary Removal

 have the best data we need to know what the actual fatality rate is whatever then you know be mistakes people made in the past whatever the model said but it's very difficult to even take something like data and completely unhinge it from the partisan context in which everything is now viewed and that

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 pythons cannot unhinge their jaws. Rather, their jaws rest on a multi-hinged joint that provides for incredible flexibility and enables the snakes to devour large prey. Flexibility is also aided by pythons' lower right and left jaw bones.

Unhinge

Mental Disruption

Figurative Sense

Emotional Charge

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