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sta·bi·lize

(stā′bə-līz′)

v. sta·bi·lized, sta·bi·liz·ing, sta·bi·liz·es

v.tr.

1. To make stable or steadfast.

2. To maintain the stability of (an airplane or ship, for example) by means of a stabilizer.

3. To keep from fluctuating; fix the level of: stabilize prices.

v.intr.

To become stable, steadfast, or fixed.

sta′bi·li·za′tion (-lĭ-zā′shən) n.

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Adj.

stabilizing - causing to become stable; "the family is one of the great stabilizing elements in society"

stabilising

helpful - providing assistance or serving a useful function

Translations

stabilisateur

stabilizzante

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That system is more than adequate to the demands of social scenarios of both the immediate moment and the far-flung future, and it makes stabilizingly good sense of the events of both the near and the distant past (if we give, of course, some allowance to the ways egotism always skews the results!).