immobilize
verb (used with object)
to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
immobilise
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a variation of
immobilize.
Example Sentences
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As such, the rangers have to physically immobilise the creatures before they can be blindfolded and transported.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
The government has made the decision that the safest - most economically viable solution - is to "immobilise" its entire plutonium stockpile.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
First, rescuers must essentially immobilise the enormous mammal before it nervously speeds away.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022
Was it not the idea of a temporary release from debt, from the question of responsibility for a death, which would only immobilise her when it returned later in her depressive phases?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2013
No magician's wand can immobilise him under my eyes.
From Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
