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unbalance

/ʌnˈbæləns/

unbalance verb: to cause to be out of balance.

Verb

unbalance (third-person singular simple present unbalances, present participle unbalancing, simple past and past participle unbalanced)

  1. (transitive) To cause to be out of balance.
    • If you put that weight on the edge of the tray, it will unbalance it and dump all of the dishes on the floor.
    • Or, finally, might our awful situation prey upon and unbalance our minds? A group of insane folk upon a dead world!1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

unbalance meaning in Tamil and Urdu

unbalance in Tamil

சமப்படுத்தாமை, கொக்கி உரு

unbalance in Urdu

غیرمتوازن کرنا

Forms of unbalance

third-person singular presentunbalances
present participleunbalancing
past participleunbalanced
pastunbalanced

Past tense of unbalance: unbalanced

Origin of unbalance

From un- + balance.

Questions about unbalance

What does unbalance mean?
Unbalance means to cause to be out of balance.
What is unbalance in Tamil?
Unbalance in Tamil is சமப்படுத்தாமை, கொக்கி உரு. See Unbalance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unbalance?
Unbalance is a verb.
How do you pronounce unbalance?
Unbalance is pronounced /ʌnˈbæləns/.
What is the past tense of unbalance?
The past tense of unbalance is unbalanced.

Words near unbalance in the dictionary

  1. unbaits
  2. unbake
  3. unbaked
  4. unbakes
  5. unbaking
  6. unbalance
  7. unbalanceable
  8. unbalanced
  9. unbalancedly
  10. unbalancedness
  11. unbalancement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbalance (page history and authors); unbalance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unbalance (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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