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A lack of balance, imbalance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- c. 1901, The Living Races of Mankind, New York: C.L. Bowman & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 8, part 3, p. 215, I may remind the reader that if Southern Tibet were at a lower elevation its climate would be hot, the latitude of Lhassa being given as practically the same (if anything slightly south) as that of Cairo. So that the intense cold is merely produced by the elevation, and the heat of the sun’s rays is intensified by the great clearness of the rarefied air; hence the great disbalances in the temperature, which make the problem of dressing a difficult one.
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To cause to be unbalanced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- c. 1870, Alexander Stewart, A Practical Bible Temperance Commentary, Aberdeen: William Lindsay, p. 74, The conduct of the Nazarite was virtuous in a two-fold sense. On the one hand, he exemplified the advantages of an abstaining life, and on the other, he symbolically represented separation from immorality which beclouds the intellect and dissipates the will, by totally refraining from that intoxicating principle, which darkens and disbalances reason.
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Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Dutch:
onevenwicht
— lack of balance
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German:
Dysbalance
— lack of balance
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Russian:
дисбала́нс
(disbaláns)
— lack of balance
