stabilize
verb(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 | |
| he / she / it stabilizes | |
| past simple stabilized | |
| past participle stabilized | |
| -ing form stabilizing |
to become or to make something become steady and unlikely to change; to make something stable （使）稳定，稳固 The patient's condition stabilized. 患者的病情稳定下来。 - stabilize something
government measures to stabilize prices 政府稳定物价的措施 Doctors stabilized the patient's condition. 大夫们使患者的病情稳定下来。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryStabilize is used with these nouns as the subject:- economy
- situation
- country
- economy
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