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• v  disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
• v  remove the hinges from
  unhinge the door

• Instead of snapping, imagine a cage that someone has the capacity to unhinge.
• Before the President launched his new offensive, the oddly public dissension among his top aides threatened to unhinge his war wagon altogether.
• Such is the power of charm to unhinge righteous principle.

• perturb
• disquiet
• trouble
• cark
• distract
• disorder

News & Articles

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• Revenge turns sour in crime thriller ‘Prisoners’
  A review of the dark crime thriller, “Prisoners,” starring Hugh Jackman as a father who becomes unhinged when his daughter disappears.
  Sept. 19, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• Martin Dempsey in CNN International
  We didn't want to do anything precipitous to potentially unhinge all the progress we've made in the past week,Dempsey said.
• Adolf Loos in Prague Post
  A person likes everything that serves to increase comfort and hates all that tries to ...... unhinge him,Loos wrote in 1910. "And that's why he likes his house and hates art."