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disbalance

disbalance noun: a lack of balance, imbalance.

Noun

disbalance (countable and uncountable, plural disbalances)

  1. A lack of balance, imbalance.
    • I may remind the reader that if Southern Tibet were at a lower elevation its climate would be hot, the latitude of Lhassa being given as practically the same (if anything slightly south) as that of Cairo. So that the intense cold is merely produced by the elevation, and the heat of the sun’s rays...c. 1901, The Living Races of Mankind, New York: C.L. Bowman & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 8, part 3, p. 215
    • The mismanagement of money can disrupt our technological production by disrupting business transactions, but a proper management of money can not eliminate the disbalance between job seekers and job opportunities that already exists.1932, Arthur Dahlberg, chapter 2, in Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism, New York: Macmillan, page 63

Verb

disbalance (third-person singular simple present disbalances, present participle disbalancing, simple past and past participle disbalanced)

  1. To cause to be unbalanced.
    • Remove all flowers, and pinch back shoots threatening to disbalance or spoil the forms of the plants.1867 June, A. Kerr, “Hints on Conservatory Decoration in Autumn”, in The Gardener, a magazine of horticulture and floriculture, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, page 223
    • The conduct of the Nazarite was virtuous in a two-fold sense. On the one hand, he exemplified the advantages of an abstaining life, and on the other, he symbolically represented separation from immorality which beclouds the intellect and dissipates the will, by totally refraining from that...c. 1870, Alexander Stewart, A Practical Bible Temperance Commentary, Aberdeen: William Lindsay, p. 74

Forms of disbalance

Noun
pluraldisbalances
Verb
third-person singular presentdisbalances
present participledisbalancing
past participledisbalanced
pastdisbalanced

Origin of disbalance

From dis- + balance.

Words formed from disbalance

Questions about disbalance

What does disbalance mean?
Disbalance means a lack of balance, imbalance.
What part of speech is disbalance?
Disbalance can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of disbalance?
The plural of disbalance is disbalances.

Words near disbalance in the dictionary

  1. disawa
  2. disawas
  3. disawe
  4. disawes
  5. disazo
  6. disbalance
  7. disbalanced
  8. disbalancement
  9. disbalancements
  10. disbalances
  11. disbalancing

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