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unbalance
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unbalance, 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.
--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.
THESAURUS
unbalance
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, witlessnessFor further exploring for "unbalance" in Webster Dictionary Online