Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To upset the balance of; cause to become unsteady.
- transitive verb To upset the stability or equilibrium of.
- transitive verb To cause (a person or the mind) to be unbalanced.
- noun The condition of being unbalanced.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw out of balance.
- noun Want of balance; derangement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cause to be out of
balance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane
- noun a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
- verb throw out of balance or equilibrium
- noun a state of mental disturbance and disorientation
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Examples
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Now steroids unbalance athletic competition at a level that VASTLY exceeds anything amphetamines or improved surgery could ever hope to.
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Fox News is BLIND and are unbalance, they only favor Republicans. addon
Freed journalist: 'We knew the nightmare was...coming to an end 2009
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions James Scarborough 2011
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I see a pattern, that not fair and balance more like unbalance, influnce. .killing, buggings, unamerican action, gun totting, calling the President name in front of the rest of the world go figure, i spent 21 years in the military for freedom of speech, and this is how they repay me and all service members
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Molecule man Vs. Sentry the battle of the unbalance minds
Who is Norman Osborn’s Secret Weapon? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions James Scarborough 2011
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions James Scarborough 2011
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Forcing small businesses to take on the same costs and tax burdens as national retail businesses is unrealistic, unfair and will "unbalance the playing field" between giant retailers and small-business retailers on the Internet, Mr. Cohen said at Wednesday's hearing.
Sales-Tax Measures 'to Cost Us Big' Angus Loten 2011
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Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions James Scarborough 2011
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Monopolistic deflationary pressure can unbalance market forces in exactly the same way that state price fixing can.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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