to stabilize
- verb
- /ˈsteɪbəˌlaɪz/
- US
- In all these jobs, he helped brainstorm and develop plans of action for stabilizing PSA membership.
- rates have stabilized
- temperature has stabilized
- stabilize at a level
Is this going to stabilize, get better or get worse?
- Is this going to stabilize, get better or get worse?
- And then then maybe maybe like the stock market can stabilize, right?
- You see it being quite divisive, like a division increasing, not stabilizing or decreasing.
- We already know that we need to see rent inflation stabilize.
- And by the time you hit your late adolescent years, it sort of stabilizes for a bit.
- And you would expect my heart rate to skyrocket and like my sweat rate to increase, but my heart rate just stabilized.
- American exports were growing, the exchange rate had stabilized, and the threat now was that a ban on foreign credit might shut off the export LED boom.
- So once your gastrointestinal issues stabilise, then the next step is to start to reintroduce these FODMAP foods that you have already cut out of your diet.
- Do not plant them out until the weather has stabilized is cauliflower and broccoli.
- The concept that our brain has not fully formed, has not fully stabilize itself until after our teenage years.
- And in Uganda, they stopped, they stopped growing then I'm not then I think the the market stabilized, but the demand started increasing.
Examples
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After several adjustments, the aircraft began to stabilize at cruising altitude.
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Organizations often undergo a series of rapid changes and stabilize until the next round of rapid changes occurs.
Academic text (2011) -
Is this going to stabilize, get better or get worse?
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Rich nations need the involvement of the poor to stabilize the climate.
Academic text (1999) -
The pressure is now beginning to stabilize as Baker fights his way to his feet.
Fiction book (1996) -
If mega caps do not stabilize, I believe almost all stocks will probably follow them down.
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By the time the situation stabilized, more than 300,000 homes and businesses were left without power.
Fiction book (1996) -
Market is stabilizing for petrol, healthy backlog for machinery.
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American exports were growing, the exchange rate had stabilized, and the threat now was that a ban on foreign credit might shut off the export LED boom.
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His vital signs are stabilizing, but he's still unresponsive.
Synonyms
To become calm and still after movement or excitement
To keep something steady so it does not fall
To make yourself or something stop moving
Keep something or someone in place and still
Become steady after rising or falling
To become or make something balanced
To make something balanced, for example temperature or teams
To make a situation calm and stable during a difficult time
Antonyms
How Stable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stabilize comes from the Latin word stabilis and the English word stable, which mean 'firm' or 'standing', so when something stabilizes it becomes steady and stops changing.