0 past simple and past participle of steady
2 to become calm and controlled, or to make someone do this:
Oil has steadied, and even declined, as an economic driver.
Sophia carefully explained that sometimes spirit writers worked better in pairs in which one steadied the hand of the other who was holding the pen.
The quota has very much steadied the market, which was going down very rapidly.
Prices generally have steadied during the past few days.
The logic behind that has been greatly reinforced by the subsequent fall in the value of sterling, even though that value has recently steadied.
There was a significant increase in the number of women in employment between 1973 and 1989, after which participation rates steadied.
It has been steadied but, at the present time, it is not possible to say that there will not be a considerable monthly deficit.
To take an extreme case, a tired person might drive better rather than worse if he had revived or steadied himself with a single whisky.
