stabilise

WORD: **stabilise**

CONTEXT: Kerry is a midwife in her mid-thirties, who has battled with her weight all her life: having tried and failed dozens of crash diets, she's finally __stabilised__ at a healthy 10st.

DEFINITION: to become firm, steady, or unchanging, or to make something firm or steady.

SOURCE: //Red// (march,2007) That's what friends are for.pp105