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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

... became harder and harder to get the revenue, and the state adopted administrative measures to get the property of any one who had any. This system impoverished everybody. To carry it out it was necessary to immobilize everybody, to force each one to accept the conditions of his birth as a status from which he could not escape. What made the colonate, then, was misery.[817] Emancipated slaves and impoverished peasants met in the class ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner



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