destabilize verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . destabilize something to make a system, country, government, etc become less well established or successful Terrorist attacks were threatening to destabilize the government The news had a destabilizing effect on the stock market Definition of destabilize verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
destabilize - Wiktionary, the free dictionary destabilize (third-person singular simple present destabilizes, present participle destabilizing, simple past and past participle destabilized) (transitive) To make something unstable quotations