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Immobilize   /ɪmˈoʊbəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Immobilize

verb
1.
Hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital.  Synonym: immobilise.
2.
To hold fast or prevent from moving.  Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap.
3.
Make defenseless.  Synonym: immobilise.
4.
Convert (assets) into fixed capital.  Synonym: immobilise.
5.
Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets).  Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise.  "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
6.
Cause to be unable to move.  Synonym: immobilise.






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"Immobilize" Quotes from Famous Books



... darkness. Atrocious struggles, merciless duels, fill the summer nights. On the stems of the long grasses, beside the furrows, the glow-worm "anaethetizes the snail," instilling into it its venom, which stupefies and produces sleep, in order to immobilize ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros



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