Usually means: Disrupt the stability or balance.
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  1. destabilize: Merriam-Webster
  2. destabilize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. destabilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. destabilize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. destabilize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Destabilize, destabilize: Wordnik
  7. destabilize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. destabilize: Wiktionary
  9. destabilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. destabilize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. destabilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. destabilize: Dictionary.com
  13. destabilize: Rhymezone
  14. destabilize: FreeDictionary.org
  15. destabilize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. destabilize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. destabilize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Political (No longer online)

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make something unstable.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become unstable.

Similar:
destabilise, unstabilize, unstable, stagger, unsteady, unsettle, disrupt, disequilibrate, break down, throw off balance, more...

Opposite:
stabilize, secure, strengthen, fortify, anchor

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destabilization, more...

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Similar:
destabilise, unstabilize, unstable, stagger, unsteady, unsettle, disrupt, disequilibrate, break down, throw off balance, more...

Opposite:
stabilize, secure, strengthen, fortify, anchor

Types:
destabilization, more...

Colors:
    gray,     red,     black,     dark green,     maroon, more...



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