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destabilizing

destabilizing is the present participle and gerund of destabilize.

Meaning of destabilize

Verb

destabilize (third-person singular simple present destabilizes, present participle destabilizing, simple past and past participle destabilized)

  1. (transitive) To make something unstable.
    • As part of its application, Macy's submitted "balloon control plans" describing how handlers, under the direction of a "pilot," were to navigate through intersections, where crosswinds can destabilize the balloons.2005 November 27, Sewell Chan, “Site of Balloon Accident Is Known for Its Crosswinds”, in The New York Times
  2. (intransitive) To become unstable.

Forms of destabilizing

alternative UKdestabilising

Questions about destabilizing

What is destabilizing the present participle and gerund of?
Destabilizing is the present participle and gerund of destabilize.

Words near destabilizing in the dictionary

  1. destabilize
  2. destabilized
  3. destabilizer
  4. destabilizers
  5. destabilizes
  6. destabilizing
  7. destack
  8. destacked
  9. destacking
  10. destacks
  11. destaff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: destabilizing (page history and authors); destabilize (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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