stabilizes
UK spellingstabilises
- 1Third person singular simple present of stabilize.
The central bank stabilizes the currency by adjusting interest rates.
Adding a heavy keel stabilizes the boat in rough water.
Note
The -s form works on both sides of the verb's split. Someone can stabilize something else, or a thing can simply stabilize. The transitive use needs an agent doing the steadying, such as a bank with its currency or a keel with a boat. The intransitive use takes no object and suits things that settle on their own, like a patient's condition or a market after a shock.
Her condition usually stabilizes within a few hours of treatment.
The market stabilizes once the initial panic passes.
stabilizes is a form of stabilize
stabilize, verb: To bring something into a stable state so that it no longer wobbles, fluctuates, or changes. Full entry
- Forms
- stabilizestabilizes he/she/itstabilizing -ing formstabilized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- stabilize → stabilizes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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