destabilise

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From de- +‎ stabilise.

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destabilise (third-person singular simple present destabilises, present participle destabilising, simple past and past participle destabilised) (British spelling)

  1. (transitive) To make something unstable.
    • 2023 January 25, “Network News: New stone shores up landslip at Carstairs”, in RAIL, number 975, page 14:
      The route had been closed on December 30 2022, after heavy rain destabilised the foundations beneath more than 40 metres of the railway.
  2. (transitive) To undermine a government, especially by means of subversion or terrorism.
  3. (intransitive) To become unstable.

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