stabilize

English

Alternative forms

• stabilise (UK)

Verb

stabilize (third-person singular simple present stabilizes, present participle stabilizing, simple past and past participle stabilized)

1. (transitive) To make stable.

   Jody stabilized the table by putting a book under the short leg.

2. (intransitive) To become stable.

   The country will stabilize after the next election ends.

Related terms

• stabilizer
• stabilization

Translations

to make stable

• Catalan: estabilitzar (ca)
• Czech: stabilizovat
• Finnish: vakauttaa
• French: stabiliser (fr)
• German: stabilisieren (de)
• Greek: σταθεροποιώ (el) (statheropoió)

• Latin: stabiliō
• Maori: whakamatua, tauta
• Portuguese: estabilizar (pt)
• Russian: стабилизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (stabilizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: estabilizar (es)
• Swahili: imarisha (sw)

to become stable

• Catalan: estabilitzar-se (ca)
• French: se stabiliser (fr)
• German: sich stabilisieren (de)
• Portuguese: estabilizar-se

• Russian: стабилизи́роваться (ru) impf or pf (stabilizírovatʹsja)
• Spanish: estabilizar (es)
• Swahili: imarisha (sw)

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