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What does off balance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word off balance? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. Not physical balanced; not having physical equilibrium.
  2. (idiomatic, of a person) surprised; perplexed
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The two or seconde parry is powerful and can knock a fencer attacking in the low line off balance if you take enough blade.
He pushed them both into the fountain while they were still teetering off balance.
He immediately dematerializes, causing her punch to miss, and pulling her off balance.
Was Hannity trying to ruffle Jensen's feathers, knock him off balance in order to get him to react in anger?
Too much criticism can throw them off balance and make them inhibited or self-conscious.
The sudden weight change threw her off balance and her head pitched forward, smacking into the metal.

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