unbalance
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- n a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
- n a state of mental disturbance and disorientation
- v throw out of balance or equilibrium
The tax relief unbalanced the budget
The prima donna unbalances the smooth work in our department - v derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane
The death of his parents unbalanced him
- Speculation against the franc continued to mount until it neared crisis proportions, threatening to unbalance the entire, delicate mobile of the Western monetary system.
- Rather delicately, he explained that al though the Big Mac bonds were a "sound security"of which he had already bought $25 millionany further pur chases might "unbalance" the .
- An aide to Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Dick Thornburgh warned that the Reagan reductions would unbalance the state's budget.