THROW OUT OF KILTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throw out of kilter mean? 

• THROW OUT OF KILTER (verb)
  The verb THROW OUT OF KILTER has 1 sense:

1. throw into great confusion or disorder

  Familiarity information: THROW OUT OF KILTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROW OUT OF KILTER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw into great confusion or disorder

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

derange; perturb; throw out of kilter

Context example:

Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order

Hypernyms (to "throw out of kilter" is one way to...):

disarray; disorder (bring disorder to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something