{
    "term": "stabilize",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "stabilize",
            "heSheIt": "stabilizes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "stabilized",
        "pastParticiple": "stabilized",
        "ingForm": "stabilizing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to become or to make something become steady and unlikely to change; to make something stable",
            "sensetop": "stabilize something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The patient's condition stabilized."
                },
                {
                    "text": "government measures to stabilize prices",
                    "contextForm": "stabilize something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Doctors stabilized the patient's condition."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪz/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilize__gb_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilizes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzd/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilized__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilizing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪz/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilize__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilizes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzd/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilized__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "st/stabilize/stabilizing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}