destabilize
Devaluating the dollar could cause a worrying destabilization of global markets.
There is real potential for more destabilization if the violence between the two groups continues.
His actions threatened a severe destabilization of the Government.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Upsetting and destabilizing
bring
bring someone down
delegitimize
destabilize
dislocated
disruptively
diversionist
knock/throw someone for a loopidiom
loop
make wavesidiom
put the skids under somethingidiom
skid
stir
turn
unsettle
unsettling
unspool
unspooling
upset
wave

Examples of destabilization

destabilization
The local destabilization of a finger occurs by a splitting of its tip and results in the formation of two branches separated by a fjord.
But with escalating class tensions, fears of destabilization led most liberals to claim ever more actively to speak for the social or national whole.
The lower curve is the result of thermal destabilization monitored by -values.
Large-scale destabilization events in hydrological structure of oceans, biotic crises, and corresponding geological records.
These isobars thus retain the memory of the initial destabilization and their disturbance is what maintains the growth in sectors in the long term.
Therefore, we attempt to explain the ultrafast disordering solely through destabilization of the covalent bonds by direct electronic excitation.
The dashed line is the normal curved passing through the point of initial destabilization.
Only when the oocyst is ingested and passes through the mammalian gut does destabilization of the wall occur with the opening of the suture.
Initially the modernist masterplan seemed to provide a stable environment until social-economic problems escalated, resulting in the destabilization of the community.
Social destabilization must also be prevented, for example, by treating all, and not only some, members of families and close-knit societies.
This dampening of the aggregative response of predators to heterogeneous prey patches leads to destabilization of the predator-prey interaction.
In this sense the destabilization of the hegemony of the present might well have a liberating effect on the minds of practitioners.
For the second hypothesis of 4.2 to be valid we must start from undisturbed fingers and observe their destabilization.
The result is the stabilization rather than the destabilization of the folded form.
Some of the other mechanisms for stabilization/destabilization are also sensitive to the sign of the fibre angle.
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