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stabilise

stabilise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stabilize.

Meaning of stabilize

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.

Forms of stabilise

third-person singular presentstabilises
present participlestabilising
past participlestabilised
paststabilised

Origin of stabilise

From stable + -ise.

Words formed from stabilise

Questions about stabilise

What is stabilise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Stabilise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stabilize.

Words near stabilise in the dictionary

  1. stabilimeter
  2. stabilimeters
  3. stabilisable
  4. stabilisation
  5. stabilisations
  6. stabilise
  7. stabilised
  8. stabiliser
  9. stabilisers
  10. stabilises
  11. stabilising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stabilise (page history and authors); stabilize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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