0 present participle of steady
2 to become calm and controlled, or to make someone do this:
In particular, several respondents suggested that older people could be a supportive and steadying influence on young people.
The walking stick is there again, steadying the man who drags the wine cart.
The said carpenter was discovered on all fours, steadying with his breast the rickety structure above.
This means that we are reminded only of the chorus's steadying influence, and not of the ambivalence of the singer's rhythm on the words 'oh boy'.
It is considered that the knowledge of this fact would be likely to have a steadying effect.
I hope it will have a steadying effect on costs.
This in fact had the effect of steadying the market.
The sergeants, many of them, are unmarried, so that even that steadying influence is withdrawn.
