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Verb: destabilize  dee'stey-bu,lIz
  1. Become unstable
    "The economy destabilized rapidly";
    - destabilise [Brit]
     
  2. Make unstable
    "Terrorism destabilized the government";
    - destabilise [Brit]

Derived forms: destabilizes, destabilizing, destabilized

Type of: alter, change, modify

Antonym: stabilize

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