stabilise
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- enPR: stāʹ-bəl-īz' IPA (key): /ˈsteɪ.bəl.ˌaɪz/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: sta‧bil‧ize
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- (transitive) If you stabilise something, you make it stable.
- Jody stabilised the table by putting a book under the short leg.
- (intransitive) If something stabilises, it becomes stable.
- The country will stabilise after the next election ends.