immobilize
verbEtymology
From French immobiliser, equivalent to immobile + -ize.
Definitions
To render motionless
To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
- It is best to immobilize the injury until a doctor can examine it.
- […]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
- Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).
To render incapable of action.
- It's clear from these [budget] cuts that the MCAD is virtually immobilized as an effective organization for at least the next year.
To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
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To tie up a capital
To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.
The neighborhood
- synonymhalt
- synonymstop
- synonymarrest
- synonymdraw up
- synonymimmobilize
- antonymaccelerate
- antonymcontinue
- antonymmove
- neighborimmobilization
- neighborimmobilizer
- neighborphotoimmobilize
- neighbordesist
- neighborcause to desist
- neighbordecelerate
- neighborhinder
- neighborpull over
Derived
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No curated loop yet for immobilize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA