immobilize
verb (used with object)
to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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In this way she is immobilizing territories, continents, peoples, which nominally she takes over.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon