Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make something unstable. 2 (context transitive English) To undermine a government, especially by means of subversion or terrorism. 3 (context intransitive English) To become unstable. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make something unstable. 2 (context transitive English) To undermine a government, especially by means of subversion or terrorism. 3 (context intransitive English) To become unstable.
WordNet
v. become unstable; "The economy destabilized rapidly" [syn: destabilize] [ant: stabilize, stabilize]
make unstable; "Terrorism destabilized the government" [syn: destabilize] [ant: stabilize, stabilize]
Wikipedia
"Destabilise" is a single by British band Enter Shikari, released as an iTunes exclusive download on 26 October 2010 and as a limited coloured 7" Vinyl on 29 November 2010 in the UK and Europe. The track was recorded in the summer of 2010 to be released as a "one off single". After recording the track, the band went on to numerous tours including Warped Tour and a tour of Australia. After Warped Tour, the band recorded the music video for the track before their Australian tour. The band performed the track at multiple festivals and UK Shows including the Reading and Leeds Festivals and at their Preston show, both of which they posted on their YouTube channel. On 21 October 2010 the band announced the release date for the single on their website and that there would be a limited 7" Vinyl featuring the track and live favourite Motherstep/Mothership recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in February. Only 500 were manufactured, approx 350 were sold into UK indie record stores and the remainder held back for the launch of the band's new webstore a few days after release. Motherstep/Mothership was released in the United States as a standalone single on 17 December 2010.
The song was eventually included on the band's third studio album A Flash Flood of Colour as a bonus track on the UK and Ireland iTunes digital edition and on the Japanese CD version of the album.
Usage examples of "destabilise".
Hundred and One Ways to Get Rich, Get Laid, and Still Have Time to Destabilise Revolutions.
The destabilised glass twisted and stretched like rubber as the book was pulled clear and then rapidly reformed itself back into solid glass.
After all, society can absorb a little violence, but for the destabilised individual it means ultimate self-destruction.
Placed in a situation that required a completely different set of controls, they became victims of their own destabilising forces.
If you refuse to do this, you will be able to observe the attempts of your stabilising mechanism - the C Force - to control the destabilising force.
When deer and lemmings are overcrowded, the result is a rise in the destabilising force which causes the adrenal glands to overwork.
All games have a common purpose: to increase the stabilising force at the expense of the destabilising force.
Fish's first page was a justification for the assassination, citing Milosevic's destabilising plans for a Greater Serbia, his illegal covert support for Radovan Karadzic and his genocidal plans for the Albanian population of Kosovo.
At the end of the training these commandos were paid very large sums of cash and released into Greek territory in order to begin the process of destabilising it.
Not only had he always considered Dawson a thoroughly nasty piece of work, but he tended to have the destabilising effect upon Connor of turning him into a junior sibling who was always trying too hard to impress his bigger brother.
There were the national legends if you wanted extreme examples - Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy - but every cop who'd worked murder or rape cases knew there was no publication more destabilising to an already fragile mind.