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destabilize

 verb
     
Related topics: Politics
de‧sta‧bil‧ize also destabilise British English [transitive]
PP to make something such as a government or economy become less successful or powerful, or less able to control events:
an attempt to destabilize the government
—destabilization noun [uncountable]
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