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stabilize

Syllables: sta·bil·ize/ˈsteɪ.bəˌlaɪz/

More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations

Australia/ˈstæɪ.bəˌlɑez/

stabilize verb: to make stable.

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.

stabilize meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

stabilize in Tamil

நிலைப்படுத்து

stabilize in Bengali

স্থিতিশীল করা, হওয়া

stabilize in Malayalam

ദൃഢീകരിക്കുക, സ്ഥിരീകരിക്കുക

stabilize in Kannada

ನೆಲೆಗೊಳಿಸು, ಗಟ್ಟಿಮಾಡು, ಮಾರ‍್ಪಡದಿರು
More languagesFewer languages
stabilize in Malay
menstabilkan
stabilize in Indonesian
menstabilkan

Examples of stabilize in a sentence

  • The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
  • ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
  • A blood transfusion stabilized her condition until surgery to stop her internal bleeding before it could begin.

All 40 example sentences with stabilize

Forms of stabilize

third-person singular presentstabilizes
present participlestabilizing
past participlestabilized
paststabilized
alternative UKstabilise

Past tense of stabilize: stabilized

Origin of stabilize

From stable + -ize.

Words formed from stabilize

Questions about stabilize

What does stabilize mean?
Stabilize means to make stable.
What is stabilize in Tamil?
Stabilize in Tamil is நிலைப்படுத்து. See Stabilize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stabilize?
Stabilize is a verb.
How do you pronounce stabilize?
Stabilize is pronounced /ˈsteɪ.bəˌlaɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of stabilize?
The past tense of stabilize is stabilized.

Words near stabilize in the dictionary

  1. stabilizable
  2. stabilization
  3. stabilization fund
  4. stabilization funds
  5. stabilizations
  6. stabilize
  7. stabilized
  8. stabilizer
  9. stabilizer subgroup
  10. stabilizer subgroups
  11. stabilizers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stabilize (page history and authors); stabilize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stabilize (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stabilize (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stabilize (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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