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/diːstˈeɪbəlˌaɪz/
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VERB
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make unstable
Terrorism destabilized the government -
become unstable
The economy destabilized rapidly
How To Use destabilise In A Sentence
- Now, they hold him responsible for planning to destabilise the country.
- They are subject to periodic earthquakes and volcanic activity that can destabilize them.
- Along with good jobs and an extensive system of social services, loving wives and mothers facilitated the process of rehabilitating bitter and "maladjusted" veterans who might otherwise destabilize American society and politics. 51 Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
- Whatever the identity of the plotter, and whomever they were batting for, the aim was simple and consistent: discredit the leadership, destabilise the leader, and stay out of the open.
- Such changes towards a commercialized society destabilized Scottish society, leading to support for the Stuart pretender across the seas in France.
- A series of coup attempts and mutinies within the armed forces destabilized the regime.
- None is big enough to destabilise the company or relevant business section if it does not. Times, Sunday Times
- -- Afghanistan and Pakistan "to stabilize the security situation;" in fact, a major effort may be undertaken to destabilize it as part of a broader agenda to stoke violence, increase Washington's presence in the region, double US forces in Afghanistan to 60,000 or more according to recent reports, and "Balkanize" each country, Iraq and possibly Syria into separate autonomous states; and Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
- In Europe governments have casually played beggar-my-neighbour politics, with countries launching deposit-guarantee schemes that destabilize banks elsewhere.
- The earliest piece here is Nacht-Schatten, from 1991, in which microtones colour and destabilise the instrumental textures.