STABILIZE

stabilize, stabilise

(verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; “The drug stabilized her blood pressure”; “stabilize prices”

stabilize, stabilise

(verb) become stable or more stable; “The economy stabilized”

brace, steady, stabilize, stabilise

(verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace; “brace your elbows while working on the potter’s wheel”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

stabilize (third-person singular simple present stabilizes, present participle stabilizing, simple past and past participle stabilized)

(transitive) To make stable.

(intransitive) To become stable.

Anagrams

• albitizes

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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