destabilize
verb (used with object)
to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes.
had been destabilizing
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past perfect progressiveof destabilize.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The last few months had been destabilizing for Briley.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
Both stylistically and thematically, “Caligari” imagined the splintering of the postwar German psyche, presenting a sense that reality itself had been destabilizing, and was reconstituting itself in jagged lines and oblique curlicues.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2017
