immobilize
verb (used with object)
to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Trainers were immobilizing the leg before the cart even reached Lathan.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023