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destabilized

vb. (en-past of: destabilize)

Usage examples of "destabilized".

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.