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🔄 To make steady again 🔄 To become steady again
to restabilize

to restabilize

5.1
To become steady again after being unstable
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈsteɪbəˌlaɪz/
  • US
translation icon : restablecer
  • It's definitely something I'll keep in mind once my schedule restabilizes, though!

Examples

  • In between, the stream is disturbed by some large-scale event, eroded, and then restabilized.

    Academic text (2003)

  • And he, he had gone through exact process, gone off of Nardell, had electroshock, but then restabilized and survived.

  • After the earthquake, the engineers worked to restabilize the building so it could safely be used again.

  • Following the financial crisis, the country needed new policies to restabilize its economy.

  • The team focused on strategies to restabilize their performance after the sudden drop in results.

Synonyms

to rebalance
vsto restabilize
  • Specialized
2 4.2

To become more even again, often without a person doing it

restores general stability rather than focusing only on balance
to reconverge
vsto restabilize
  • Specialized
8.5

To come back together to a single path or solution

becomes fully stable again rather than just starting to approach stability

Antonyms

to destabilize
77 6.7

To make something less stable, safe, or likely to succeed

How Stable

to solidify
55 4.4
to firm up
5 3.3
to restabilize
  • US
5.1
to settle
540 2.8

Surface Forms

restabilize infinitive
restabilized past
restabilized past participle
restabilizing present participle
restabilizes third person singular

Morphology

restabilize = stabilize (transparent) = re + stable + ize

The prefix 're-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'again' to 'stabilize'.

Etymology

Restabilize combines the prefix re- meaning 'again' and stable meaning 'steady' or 'firm'. So, a helpful way to remember this sense is that something that restabilizes 'becomes steady again' after being shaken or changed.