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Definition: Destabilize |
DestabilizeVerb1. 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. |
Date "destabilize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonym: DestabilizeSynonym: destabilise (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: stabilize (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Laos | Although official pronouncements accepted the existence of religion, they emphasized its potential to divide, distract, or destabilize. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | The Government accused them of procuring arms, in cooperation with RDR presidential candidate Ouattara, in order to destabilize the country. (references) | |
Vietnam | It also prohibits Internet users from taking advantage of the Internet for the purpose of hostile actions against the country or to destabilize security, violate morality, or violate other laws and regulations. (references) | |
Economic History | Tajikistan | This combination of negative factors produces crossborder effects that regularly threatens to destabilize Tajikistan's fragile and hard-won peace. (references) |
Mozambique | Mozambique's decision to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia and deny that country access to the sea led Ian Smith's regime to undertake overt and covert actions to destabilize the country. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Abkhaz and Georgian officials have agreed on joint law enforcement efforts to prosecute kidnapers and other criminals that may threaten to destabilize the ceasefire. (references) |
Political Economy | Lesotho | In September and October 1998, the armed opposition protesters used violence to destabilize the Government, disarm the police, intimidate workers and business owners, shut down government and business operations, and facilitate a junior officer rebellion in the army. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Destabilize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Destabilize" is used about 50 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) | 98% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
destabilize | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "destabilize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 动摇 (destabilise, fluctuate, Fluctuated, fluctuating, shake-up). (various references) | |
French | se déstabiliser. (various references) | |
German | destabilizieren. (various references) | |
Italian | destabilizzare (disrupt). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estabilizeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desestabilizar (disestablish). (various references) | |
Russian | дестабилизировать. (various references) | |
Spanish | desestabilizar (psych out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "destabilize": destabilized, destabilizes. (additional references) | |
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"Destabilize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: destabilizer, restabilise, restabilize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "destabilize" (pronounced dēstā"bulī'z) |
| 8 | -s t ā" b u l ī' z | stabilize. |
| 5 | -b u l ī' z | cannibalize, demobilize, globalize, metabolize, mobilize, symbolize, verbalize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, mineralize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, sterilize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bestialized. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: bestialize, stabilized. | |
-2 letters: idealizes, sibilated, stabilize. | |
-3 letters: abseiled, beadiest, beladies, diabetes, editable, idealise, idealist, idealize, leadiest, seizable, sibilate, sizeable. | |
-4 letters: aediles, albites, alibied, alibies, astilbe, bailees, bailies, baldest, baldies, bastile, beadles, beastie, belated, bestead, bestial, betides, bialies, bilsted, blasted, blastie, bleated, blitzed, blitzes, dailies, debates, deities, delates, details, dialist, dilates, disable, edibles, ideates, laities. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-s-t-z" | |
+1 letter: destabilized, destabilizes, detribalizes, restabilized. | |
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