Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. (context transitive English) To make something unstable. vb. (context transitive English) To make something unstable.
WordNet
v. become unstable; "The economy destabilized rapidly" [syn: destabilise] [ant: stabilize, stabilize]
make unstable; "Terrorism destabilized the government" [syn: destabilise] [ant: stabilize, stabilize]
Usage examples of "destabilize".
Strategy Committee is already working on a plan to at least destabilize and hopefully permanently derail the Talbott annexation.
Although the botulinum toxin is as lethal as any known substance, a terrorist would likely use it to create fear by inflicting a few deaths that would severely destabilize a community.
La Forge so that he would assassinate Klingon governor Vagh did not work out Nor did my attempts to destabilize the Gowron regime by supporting the Duras family.
The same group, it was explained to Colonel Heine, was now threatening to destabilize the government of unified Germany.
Veritas trickling into other landholdings exerted an enormous destabilizing influence.
The significant simulations occur when dynamic systems are destabilized and pass through a chaotic phase on the way toward essentially newand in practice unpredictablesteady states.
The smaller pieces not only increased the total surface area available to receive the Ulva, but also kept the larger pieces from rolling against each other and destabilizing the load in the nets.
It would leave in place all of the autocracy that has alienated Arab populations, the corruption and cronyism that have impoverished them, and the sectarianism and intrastate animosities that have destabilized them.
Fearing that his control was threatened, he ordered large-scale arrests and executions, which backfired and destabilized his regime for months afterward.
To every side of us light flashed into the sky and flashed and flashed and flashed, as one out of every ten thousand time machines destabilized and expressed itself as a thermonuclear explosion.
It destabilized the glacier with heat bombs, self-propelled lasers, and rocket exhausts.
Again, as we saw in both Lebanon and Afghanistan, civil war tends to spill over into neighboring states, destabilizing them too.
But when you are chasing yourself, the most simple facts of existence become disturbing, destabilizing, and a source of unending waking confusion.
The knowledge destabilized his alliance with the other ghosts, bringing it to the verge of panicked collapse.
Probably there had been chain reactions of supernovae, with the wreckage of one star destabilizing another.