stabilize
verb/ˈsteɪbəlaɪz/
/ˈsteɪbəlaɪz/
(British English also stabilise)
[intransitive, transitive]Word Family
- stable adjective (≠ unstable)
- stability noun (≠ instability)
- stabilize verb
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stabilize | /ˈsteɪbəlaɪz/ /ˈsteɪbəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it stabilizes | /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪz/ /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple stabilized | /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzd/ /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle stabilized | /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzd/ /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form stabilizing | /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- to become or to make something become steady and unlikely to change; to make something stable
- The patient's condition stabilized.
- stabilize something government measures to stabilize prices
- Doctors stabilized the patient's condition.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryStabilize is used with these nouns as the subject:- economy
- situation
- country
- economy
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