Meanings
present singular third person unbalances · participle present unbalancing · participle past unbalanced · past unbalanced
- transitiveTo 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.
1 more example
Or, finally, might our awful situation prey upon and unbalance our minds? A group of insane folk upon a dead world!
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishun-
- Latinbilanx
- Vulgar Latin*bilancia
- Old Frenchbalance
- Middle Englishbalaunce
- Englishbalance
- Englishunbalance
Translations
Bulgarian изваждам от равновесие
- изваждам от равновесие (izvaždam ot ravnovesie)to cause to be out of balance
French désaxer, déséquilibrer
- désaxerto cause to be out of balance
- déséquilibrerto cause to be out of balance
Irish éagothromaigh
- éagothromaighto cause to be out of balance
Italian squilibrare, sbilanciare
- squilibrareto cause to be out of balance
- sbilanciareto cause to be out of balance
Latin commoveō
- commoveōto cause to be out of balance
Spanish desequilibrar
- desequilibrarto cause to be out of balance
Turkish dengesizlik
- dengesizlikto cause to be out of balance
Cite this entry
unbalance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbalance
“unbalance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbalance. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbalance,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbalance.
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