the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally > impair the stability of (3)
figurative. with object a person, institution, etc., with regard to his or its stability of position.
transitive. To remove the pegs, dowels, rods, etc., from (something fastened or held together by these); to unfasten, take apart, or detach in this…
figurative. To shake the stability of (a country, a condition of things).