stabilize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
The drug stabilized her blood pressure
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- destabilize antonym
- stabilization derivation
- stabiliser derivation
- stabilizer derivation
- stabilizer derivation
Sense 2 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
Types & categories
- strengthen hypernym
- ballast hyponym
- guy hyponym
Related & opposite
- stabilisation derivation
- brace derivation
Sense 3 verb
become stable or more stable
The economy stabilized
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- destabilize antonym
- stabilization derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | destabilize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stabilization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stabiliser |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stabilizer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stabilizer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | peg |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stabilisation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | brace |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | strengthen |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ballast |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | guy |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | destabilize |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | stabilization |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | take root |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | steady |