to destabilize
- verb
- /ˌdɛstəˈbaɪlaɪz/
- The United States should concentrate on shaping these potentially destabilizing developments in ways favorable to U.S. interests.
- destabilize the government
- destabilize the regime
- destabilize the region
It is a plan to destabilise the nation state.
- It is a plan to destabilise the nation state.
- But when we are destabilized, we stop trusting.
- In that case, a fall in the price of FTT would destabilize FTX de exchange.
- What's really the problem is that in doing so, we destabilize the ecological system.
- Arms have spilled out of Libya, helping destabilize the region.
- Why doesn't the expansion of space destabilize orbits?
- An entire area of the world was destabilized.
- I hang out with Vlad and destabilize Western democracy for the love of the game.
- But bacteria do have cell walls, So one way that antibiotics work is to destabilize the cell wall.
- There is actually a campaign right now by on by the Iranian state to destabilize those countries.
- He thinks it's an inconvenient, messy process and he doesn't like us and he wants to destabilize our country.
- I, I, I, I didn't want to open up the possibility of, of destabilizing myself.
- Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilised energy markets and supply chains the world over.
Examples
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The constant staffing changes had a destabilizing impact on the workforce.
Academic text (2011) -
The other component is that caffeine will destabilize your sleep.
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What's really the problem is that in doing so, we destabilize the ecological system.
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It means that something can happen that can destabilize the system.
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Apparently I have been associating with someone who could destabilize the country.
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Telling states they cannot rely on the most readily available data might seem to destabilize the whole edifice.
Academic text (2017) -
It is a plan to destabilise the nation state.
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Arms have spilled out of Libya, helping destabilize the region.
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Under these circumstances, Washington's insistence that Arab states array against Iran could further destabilize an already volatile region.
Academic text (2008) -
The new government policies may destabilize the economy if they are poorly implemented.
Synonyms
Cause a plan to fail or stop moving forward
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Etymology
The word destabilize comes from the prefix de- ('remove') and stable ('steady' or 'firm'). So to destabilize something is to 'take away' its steadiness, like when a table loses a leg and becomes wobbly.