immobilize
immobilize verb: to render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
Verb
immobilize (third-person singular simple present immobilizes, present participle immobilizing, simple past and past participle immobilized)
- 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.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70
- Synonyms:
- freeze
- 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.1975 December 27, “Editorial”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 4
- To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
- To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.
immobilize meaning in Malayalam
immobilize in Malayalam
- disable, put out of action, make inoperative
- നിശ്ചലമാക്കുക, സ്തംഭിപ്പിക്കുക, അവശതപ്പെടുത്തുക, പ്രവർത്തിക്കാനാകാതാക്കുക, പ്രവർത്തിക്കാനാവാത്ത സ്ഥിതിയിലാക്കുക, പ്രവർത്തിക്കാത്ത സ്ഥിതിയിലാക്കുക
Examples of immobilize in a sentence
- Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343:
- This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes.2012, Rob Benvie, Maintenance:
Synonyms of immobilize
Antonyms
Forms of immobilize
| third-person singular present | immobilizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | immobilizing |
| past participle | immobilized |
| past | immobilized |
| alternative form | immobilise |
Origin of immobilize
From French immobiliser, equivalent to immobile + -ize.
Words formed from immobilize
Questions about immobilize
- What does immobilize mean?
- Immobilize means to render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
- What is immobilize in Malayalam?
- Immobilize in Malayalam is നിശ്ചലമാക്കുക, സ്തംഭിപ്പിക്കുക, അവശതപ്പെടുത്തുക. See Immobilize meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use immobilize in a sentence?
- Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).
- What part of speech is immobilize?
- Immobilize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of immobilize?
- The past tense of immobilize is immobilized.
Words near immobilize in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: immobilize (page history and authors); immobilize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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