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immobilize

[ ih-moh-buh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

immobilized, immobilizing.
  1. to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
  2. to prevent the use, activity, or movement of:

    The hurricane immobilized the airlines.

  3. to deprive of the capacity for mobilization:

    The troops were immobilized by the enemy.

  4. Medicine/Medical. to prevent, restrict, or reduce normal movement in (the body, a limb, or a joint), as by a splint, cast, or prescribed bed rest.
  5. to render (an opponent's strategy) ineffective; stymie.
  6. Finance.
    1. to establish a monetary reserve by withdrawing (specie) from circulation.
    2. to create fixed capital in place of (circulating capital).


immobilize

/ 瑟藞尘蓹蕣产瑟藢濒补瑟锄 /

verb

  1. to make or become immobile

    to immobilize a car

  2. finance
    1. to remove (specie) from circulation and hold it as a reserve
    2. to convert (circulating capital) into fixed capital
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 颈尘藞尘辞产颈藢濒颈锄别谤, noun
  • 颈尘藢尘辞产颈濒颈藞锄补迟颈辞苍, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 颈尘路尘辞顎卋颈路濒颈路锄补顎僼颈辞苍 noun
  • 颈尘路尘辞顎僢颈路濒颈锄顎卐谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of immobilize1

1870鈥75; immobile + -ize; mobilize and compare French immobiliser
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He鈥檚 been immobilized by a hip injury, and looked up quizzically from his bed.

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After a failed PIT maneuver to immobilize the car in the parking lot, the burglars fled, purposely hitting a police vehicle to get away, police said.

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Fine, immobilized by multiple sclerosis, didn鈥檛 know the names of the responders, but said she wanted to 鈥渟hout-out鈥 to all of them.

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When Campos asked why the agent had immobilized his vehicle, the agent replied, 鈥淚鈥檓 not going to argue with you, bro. You did what you did, I did what I did.鈥

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They claimed that he 鈥渇elt a sensation akin to drowning while immobilized but conscious鈥 during his execution.

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