immobilize
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From French immobiliser.
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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.
- To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
- (finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.
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- (render motionless): freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize or Thesaurus:stop
- (modify a surface):
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render motionless
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