stabilize

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verb

1. make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium (Freq. 2)
- The drug stabilized her blood pressure
- stabilize prices
• Syn:
stabilise
• Ant:
destabilise (for: stabilise), destabilize
• Derivationally related forms:
stabilisation (for: stabilise), stabilization, stabilizer, stabiliser (for: stabilise)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
peg
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel
• Syn:
brace, steady, stabilise
• Derivationally related forms:
stabilization, brace (for: brace)
• Hypernyms:
strengthen, beef up, fortify
• Hyponyms:
ballast, guy
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. become stable or more stable
- The economy stabilized
• Syn:
stabilise
• Ant:
destabilize, destabilise
• Derivationally related forms:
stabilisation (for: stabilise)
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down,
steady, calm, becalm
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stabilise, brace, steady
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  destabilize, destabilise