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Definition: Destabilise |
DestabiliseVerb1. Become unstable; "The economy destabilized rapidly". 2. Make unstable; "Terrorism destabilized the government". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DestabiliseSynonym: destabilize (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: stabilize (v). (additional references) |
| "Destabilise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.16% of the time. "Destabilise" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 92.16% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "destabilise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 动摇 (destabilize, fluctuate, Fluctuated, fluctuating, shake-up). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estabiliseday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: idealises, idealists, sibilated, sibilates. | |
-3 letters: abseiled, astilbes, basseted, bastiles, beadiest, beasties, beatless, beladies, besteads, bilsteds, blasties, dateless, debtless, detassel, diabetes, dialists, disables, editable, idealess, idealise, idealist, leadiest, seisable, sibilate, stabiles, steadies, tasseled, tideless. | |
-4 letters: abseils, aediles, aidless, albites, alibied, alibies, astilbe, bailees, bailies, baldest, baldies, bastile, beadles, beastie, bedless, bedsits, belated, besides, bestead. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: destabilizes. | |
+3 letters: desirabilities, disestablished, disestablishes. | |
+4 letters: defeasibilities, disequilibrates, indomitableness, indubitableness, solderabilities, spreadabilities. | |
+5 letters: addressabilities, deliberativeness, disestablishment, dispensabilities, indisputableness, undesirabilities. | |
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