What does destabilize mean?

Definitions for destabilize
diˈsteɪ bəˌlaɪzdesta·bi·lize

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. destabilize, destabiliseverb

    become unstable

    "The economy destabilized rapidly"

  2. destabilize, destabiliseverb

    make unstable

    "Terrorism destabilized the government"

Wiktionary

  1. destabilizeverb

    To make something unstable.

  2. destabilizeverb

    To undermine a government, especially by means of subversion or terrorism.

  3. destabilizeverb

    To become unstable.

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  1. destabilize

    To destabilize refers to the act of making something unsteady, unstable or insecure, either physically or metaphorically. This could mean causing a government, economy, or system to become inefficient, malfunction or potentially collapse. It is the process of introducing instability or uncertainty into a previously stable environment or situation.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of destabilize in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of destabilize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of destabilize in a Sentence

  1. Matthew Schmidt:

    Theres no real U.S. analog. Its like a mix of CIA and special forces, its trained to make mayhem. The overall goal is to destabilize targeted political systems, including in Europe, to attack the political will to maintain NATO, with other missions as opportunity allows, including the killing of traitors.

  2. Amanda Gorman:

    Poetry is a weapon. It is an instrument of social change...and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with. Inherently, you are pushing against the status quo. And so for me, it's always existed in that tradition of truth-telling.

  3. Dmytro Kuleba:

    Economically, because of sanctions that will be slammed on Russia immediately. Militarily, because we are not the country that will give up. This is our land, we will be defending it, you see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

  4. Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh:

    The gathering of information from 'witnesses' organized by Ethiopia allows the latter to advance its propaganda against a country that it aims to destabilize.

  5. Yahya Jammeh:

    Nobody can also destabilize this country. So anybody who comes to attack this country; be ready because you are going to die no matter who you are and who backed you, we will get to the bottom of this and we will not spare anybody.

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