verb
- Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace.
- usage: "brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel"
- Become stable or more stable.
- usage: "The economy stabilized"
- Make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium.
- usage: "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices"
adjective
- Causing to become stable.
- usage: "the family is one of the great stabilizing elements in society"
- synonyms: stabilizing
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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