STABILIZE
Dictionary entry overview: What does stabilize mean?
• STABILIZE (verb)
The verb STABILIZE has 3 senses:
1. make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
2. support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
3. become stable or more stable
Familiarity information: STABILIZE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• STABILIZE (verb)
Meaning:
Make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
stabilize; stabilise
Context examples:
The drug stabilized her blood pressure / stabilize prices
Hypernyms (to "stabilize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stabilize"):
peg (stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
destabilize (make unstable)
Meaning:
Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
stabilise; brace; stabilize; steady
Context example:
brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel
Hypernyms (to "stabilize" is one way to...):
beef up; fortify; strengthen (make strong or stronger)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stabilize"):
ballast (make steady with a ballast)
guy (steady or support with a guy wire or cable)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become stable or more stable
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
stabilise; stabilize
Context example:
The economy stabilized
Hypernyms (to "stabilize" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stabilize"):
root; settle; settle down; steady down; take root (become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style)
becalm; calm; steady (make steady)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
destabilise; destabilize (become unstable)
