stabilizing
- 1Present participle and gerund of stabilize.
Engineers spent the week stabilizing the bridge after the earthquake.
The central bank is stabilizing the currency through careful interest rate changes.
Note
The -ing form keeps both halves of the verb. With an object, someone does the steadying: a nurse stabilizing a patient. Without one, the thing settles by itself, which suits prices, markets and vital signs: the patient's condition is stabilizing. Before a noun it works as a modifier (a stabilizing influence), and as a gerund it can stand as a subject: stabilizing the currency took years.
After a volatile spring, fuel prices are finally stabilizing.
Her calm presence had a stabilizing effect on the whole team.
stabilizing 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 → stabilizing: drop the e, add -ing
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