unbalance

unbalance

English

Etymology

un- +‎ 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.

   • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:

     Or, finally, might our awful situation prey upon and unbalance our minds? A group of insane folk upon a dead world!

Translations

to cause to be out of balance

Bulgarian: изваждам от равновесие (izvaždam ot ravnovesie) French: désaxer (fr), déséquilibrer (fr) Ido: desequilibrigar (io) Irish: éagothromaigh Italian: squilibrare (it), sbilanciare (it) Latin: commoveō (la) Spanish: desequilibrar (es)