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THROW OUT OF KILTER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Throw into great confusion or disorder
Example:
Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order
Synonyms:
derange; perturb; throw out of kilter
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "throw out of kilter" is one way to...):
disarray; disorder (bring disorder to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something