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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

estabilizar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: estabilizar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stabilize/ˈsteɪ.bə.laɪz/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3400 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El piloto logró estabilizar la aeronave tras la turbulencia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make or become stable, steadfast, or free from rapid changes, fluctuations, or decline.

    "The government implemented new fiscal policies to stabilize the national economy."
  2. 2

    To hold steady or prevent an object or system from capsizing, tipping, or failing.

    "Paramedics worked quickly to stabilize the patient before transporting them to the hospital."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective stable, originating from the Latin stabilis meaning firm or steadfast, via Old French. The suffix -ize was added in the 19th century to form a verb denoting the action of making something stable or constant.

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