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destabilising

destabilising is the present participle and gerund of destabilise.

Meaning of destabilise

Verb

destabilise (third-person singular simple present destabilises, present participle destabilising, simple past and past participle destabilised)

  1. (UK, transitive) To make something unstable.
    • The route had been closed on December 30 2022, after heavy rain destabilised the foundations beneath more than 40 metres of the railway.2023 January 25, “Network News: New stone shores up landslip at Carstairs”, in RAIL, number 975, page 14
  2. (UK, transitive) To undermine a government, especially by means of subversion or terrorism.
  3. (UK, intransitive) To become unstable.

Forms of destabilising

comparativemore destabilising
superlativemost destabilising
alternative USdestabilizing

Questions about destabilising

What is destabilising the present participle and gerund of?
Destabilising is the present participle and gerund of destabilise.

Words near destabilising in the dictionary

  1. destabilise
  2. destabilised
  3. destabiliser
  4. destabilisers
  5. destabilises
  6. destabilising
  7. destabilization
  8. destabilizations
  9. destabilize
  10. destabilized
  11. destabilizer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: destabilising (page history and authors); destabilise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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