"immobilize" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-us-immobilize.ogg Forms: immobilizes [present, singular, third-person], immobilizing [participle, present], immobilized [participle, past], immobilized [past]
Etymology: From French immobiliser, equivalent to immobile + -ize. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|immobiliser}} French immobiliser, {{af|en|immobile|-ize}} immobile + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} immobilize (third-person singular simple present immobilizes, present participle immobilizing, simple past and past participle immobilized)
  1. To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving. Tags: transitive Synonyms (render motionless): freeze Translations (render motionless): імабілізаваць (imabilizavacʹ) (Belarusian), обездвижвам (obezdvižvam) (Bulgarian), immobilitzar (Catalan), immobiliser (French), inmobilizar (Galician), entalar (Galician), unbeweglich machen (German), immobilisieren (German), ακινητοποιώ (akinitopoió) (Greek), rögzít (Hungarian), immobilitare (Italian), mātāpou (english: by using a magic spell) (Maori), imobilisé (Piedmontese), unieruchamiać [imperfective] (Polish), unieruchomić [perfective] (Polish), imobilizar (Portuguese), imobiliza (Romanian), иммобилизовать (immobilizovatʹ) (Russian), znehybniť (Slovak), znehybňovať (Slovak), imobilizovať (Slovak), inmovilizar (Spanish), іммобілізувати (immobilizuvaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-immobilize-en-verb-Hk~6f61v Disambiguation of 'render motionless': 71 22 2 5 Disambiguation of 'render motionless': 71 22 2 5
  2. To render incapable of action. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-immobilize-en-verb-99lgodf3
  3. To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-immobilize-en-verb-4vsDnYJB
  4. (finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Finance
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: halt, stop, immobilise, arrest, draw up, immobilize Hypernyms: cause to desist, decelerate, hinder Hyponyms: pull over Related terms: immobilization, immobilizer, photoimmobilize, desist

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).",
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          "text": "This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes.",
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          "ref": "1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343:",
          "text": "Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Rob Benvie, Maintenance:",
          "text": "This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "moving",
          "moving"
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      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1975 December 27, “Editorial”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 4:",
          "text": "It's clear from these [budget] cuts that the MCAD is virtually immobilized as an effective organization for at least the next year.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To render incapable of action."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable."
      ],
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        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
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        [
          "tie up",
          "tie up"
        ],
        [
          "capital",
          "capital"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
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        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "freeze"
    },
    {
      "word": "halt"
    },
    {
      "word": "stop"
    },
    {
      "word": "immobilise"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:immobilize",
      "word": "arrest"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:immobilize",
      "word": "draw up"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:immobilize",
      "word": "immobilize"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "imabilizavacʹ",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "імабілізаваць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obezdvižvam",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "обездвижвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "immobilitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "immobiliser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "inmobilizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "entalar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "unbeweglich machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "immobilisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "akinitopoió",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "ακινητοποιώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "rögzít"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "immobilitare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "english": "by using a magic spell",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "mātāpou"
    },
    {
      "code": "pms",
      "lang": "Piedmontese",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "imobilisé"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "unieruchamiać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "unieruchomić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "imobilizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "imobiliza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "immobilizovatʹ",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "иммобилизовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "znehybniť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "znehybňovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "imobilizovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "inmovilizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "immobilizuvaty",
      "sense": "render motionless",
      "word": "іммобілізувати"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immobilize"
}

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