Usually means: Render unable to move or act.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. immobilize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. immobilize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. immobilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. immobilize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. immobilize: Vocabulary.com
  6. immobilize: Wordnik
  7. immobilize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. immobilize: Wiktionary
  9. immobilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. immobilize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. immobilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. immobilize: Dictionary.com
  13. immobilize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Immobilize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. immobilize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. immobilize: Rhymezone
  17. Immobilize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. immobilize: Free Dictionary
  19. immobilize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. immobilize: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. immobilize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. immobilize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. immobilize: Medical dictionary
  3. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See immobilization as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
verb:  To render incapable of action.
verb:  To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
verb:  (finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.

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