stabilize
Verb (transitive):
- To make something stable, firm, or steady; to prevent something from changing, moving, or declining.
- To maintain or establish something in a balanced or constant state.
Verb (intransitive):
- To become stable, steady, or unchanging; to stop fluctuating.
Transitive Verb (to make something stable):
- The government acted to stabilize the currency.
- Doctors used medication to stabilize the patient's heart rate.
- The crew added ballast to stabilize the ship in the rough seas.
Intransitive Verb (to become stable):
- After the initial shock, the situation began to stabilize.
- Her condition has stabilized and is no longer critical.
- The price of oil finally stabilized after weeks of volatility.
"to stabilize oneself": To gain physical or emotional balance.
- He grabbed the railing to stabilize himself after tripping.
In technical contexts (e.g., engineering, aviation, chemistry): To make a system, structure, or compound resistant to change or disturbance.
- The new software update is designed to stabilize the operating system.
Stabilization (noun): The process of making or becoming stable.
- The stabilization of the economy was the minister's primary goal.
Stabilizer (noun): A device or substance used to maintain stability.
- The plane's tail fin acts as a stabilizer.
Stable (adjective): Not likely to change or move; firmly fixed.
- The patient is now in a stable condition.
- Steady: To make or become steady, regular, or less changeable.
- Balance: To bring into or keep in equilibrium.
- Secure: To fix or attach firmly so as not to give way or move.
- Destabilize: To make something unstable.
- Fluctuate: To change irregularly; to rise and fall.
- Upset: To disturb the balance or stability of.
(Note: "Stabilize" is not commonly used with particles to form phrasal verbs. Its meaning is typically conveyed alone or with a direct object.) - "Stabilize at": To reach and remain at a certain level. - Inflation has stabilized at around 2%.
(Note: There are no common idioms centered solely on the word "stabilize.")
- become stable or more stable
- The economy stabilized
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel
- make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
- The drug stabilized her blood pressure
- stabilize prices
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