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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance" [syn: imbalance, instability, unbalance] [ant: balance]
2: a state of mental disturbance and disorientation [syn: derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalance] v
1: throw out of balance or equilibrium; "The tax relief unbalanced the budget"; "The prima donna unbalances the smooth work in our department" [ant: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize]
2: derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane; "The death of his parents unbalanced him" [syn: unbalance, derange]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Date: 1854 to put out of balance II. noun Date: 1855 lack of balance ; imbalance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 upset the physical or mental balance of (unbalanced by the blow; the shock unbalanced him). 2 (as unbalanced adj.) a not balanced. b (of a mind or a person) unstable or deranged. --n. lack of balance; instability, esp. mental.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(unbalances, unbalancing, unbalanced) 1. If something unbalances a relationship, system, or group, it disturbs or upsets it so that it is no longer successful or functioning properly. The interplay between the new politics and the modern media will unbalance the political process and inhibit its workings. = destabilize VERB: V n 2. To unbalance something means to make it unsteady and likely to tip over. Her whole body began to buckle, unbalancing the ladder... Don't lean in–you're unbalancing the horse. VERB: V n, V n

Moby Thesaurus

aberration, abnormality, alienation, asymmetry, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, contrariety, craze, craziness, daftness, dement, dementedness, dementia, derange, derangement, difference, disbalance, disequilibrate, disequilibrium, disorientation, disparity, disproportion, distract, distraction, drive insane, drive mad, folie, frenzy, furor, heterogeneity, imbalance, inadequacy, inequality, inequity, injustice, insaneness, insanity, instability, insufficiency, irrationality, irregularity, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, make mad, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, nonuniformity, oddness, odds, overbalance, pixilation, possession, psychopathy, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, send mad, senselessness, shatter, shattered mind, shortcoming, sick mind, sickness, skew, strangeness, throw off balance, unbalanced mind, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unhinge, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, upset, witlessness