STABILIZE

[UK and ANZ] usually -ise [verb] [I]If something stabilizes, it becomes fixed or stops changing.He suffered a second heart attack two days ago but his condition has now stabilized. [I]Since the early 1970s, the proportion of high school graduates going to college has stabilized at 50%. [I]If you stabilize something, you cause it to become fixed or to stop changing.In China, the policy of one child per family was introduced to stabilize the country's population at 1.6 billion. [T]Many people hoped that the arrival of democracy in Russia would act as a stabilizing force. [T]