to unbalance

Examples

• All

• Everything needs its balance and you done come along here and unbalanced everything.

  Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)

• Just make private donations to the schools illegal to avoid the rich unbalancing the system.

  Blog text (2)

• There is that risk that when you when you select for example, for one characteristic, you tend, you tend to unbalance the animal.

  andrew gold | heretics.

• No, but his weight with the commoners could unbalance everything.

  Braveheart (1995)

• Then he unbalances himself because his back legs and hips are not too steady.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Unfortunately, cropping it now unbalances the scene too much.

  Academic text (1994)

• If I were asked to please sit where I was because it unbalanced the workload, then I would have simply up and left.

  Blog text (9)

• The Energy Information Administration, for instance, concludes that regulatory interventions are far more likely to unbalance the energy playing field than are direct subsidies.

  Academic text (1999)

• The lack of an established SG unbalances NOLA's teamwork and makes other players force plays.

  Blog text (16)

• The heavy rainfall can unbalance the ecosystem in the local wetlands.

Synonyms

S

to skew

vsto unbalance

61 5.4

To change information so it becomes unfair or wrong

concerns physical or general instability rather than factual distortion

T

to throw off balance

vsto unbalance

4 5.4

To make someone feel confused or unsure after a sudden change

usually covers physical instability or unevenness rather than a mental unsettlement

O

to overbalance

vsto unbalance

6.7

To make something lose balance or become unsteady

is more general, meaning to make something unstable or uneven

U

to unsteady

vsto unbalance

4.2

To make something less firm or likely to fall

focuses on the action of putting something out of equilibrium rather than the result

O

to overset

vsto unbalance

6.4

To make something fall over or turn upside down

can mean causing instability without making it fall over

O

to overtip

vsto unbalance

5.8

To make something tilt so far that it falls over

describes a strong tilt leading to a fall rather than slight instability

Antonyms

B

to balance

285 2.0

To keep something steady so it does not fall

How Forceful

overthrow

29 6.1

to topple

93 4.1

push

138 1.0

to unbalance

2 4.8

to jostle

22 4.4

to nudge

33 3.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology