immobilize

Word family

im·mo·bi·lize (also immobilise British English) /ɪˈməʊbəlaɪz $ ɪˈmoʊ-/ verb [transitiveT]

1 NOT MOVINGto prevent someone or something from moving 使不能动，使固定

The broken limb must be immobilized immediately.

断肢必须立即加以固定。

She was immobilized with a broken leg.

她的腿断了，不能行走。

2 BREAKto stop something from working 使〔某物〕停止运转

The car’s security device will immobilize the ignition system.

这辆汽车的安全装置能使点火系统停止工作。

—immobilization /ɪˌməʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ ɪˌmoʊbələ-/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

immobilize• This argument is both diversionary and, at length, immobilizing.• For this he was relieved of his world title and, like Johnson, was involuntarily immobilized.• The virus has immobilized around 6,000 computers linked to the Internet.• Then he found himself immobilized for two weeks.• Doctors put on a cast to immobilize her ankle.• They are immobilized in almost every sense we can imagine.• Standing dumb and immobilized in Doyle's hands, Jinny felt the last grains of fight trickle out of her.• Another use for the sequestering agents is to immobilize metals that might cause difficulties in processing.• Immobilization of nitrogen occurs in both types in both sites but phosphorus is immobilized only in the fern litter.• Kingsley sat immobilized, only the muscles of his jaw pulsing.• Demonstrators immobilized tanks using gasoline bombs.• Kendrick had only a few minutes to immobilize the aircraft.

From Longman Business Dictionary