immobilize
/ˌɪmˈoʊbəlˌaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.35 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008)."
- "This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes."
- "Fully autonomous vehicles have raised safety concerns. California enacted a law this year that will, among other things, require manufacturers to continuously monitor every autonomous vehicle on the road and designate a remote human operator to immobilize a vehicle if necessary."
- "It's clear from these [budget] cuts that the MCAD is virtually immobilized as an effective organization for at least the next year."