immobilize

English

Alternative forms

• immobilise

Etymology

From French immobiliser.

Pronunciation

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Verb

immobilize (third-person singular simple present immobilizes, present participle immobilizing, simple past and past participle immobilized)

1. To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.

   It is best to immobilize the injury until a doctor can examine it.

2. To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
3. (finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.

   Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.

Synonyms

• (render motionless): freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize or Thesaurus:stop
• (modify a surface):

Related terms

• immobilization
• immobilizer
• photoimmobilize

Translations

render motionless

• Belarusian: імабілізаваць (imabilizavacʹ)
• Bulgarian: обездвижвам (obezdvižvam)
• Catalan: immobilitzar (ca)
• French: immobiliser (fr)
• Galician: inmobilizar (gl), entalar (gl)
• German: unbeweglich (de) machen (de), immobilisieren (de)
• Greek: ακινητοποιώ (el) (akinitopoió)
• Hungarian: rögzít (hu)
• Italian: immobilitare
• Maori: mātāpou (by using a magic spell)
• Piedmontese: imobilisé
• Polish: unieruchamiać impf, unieruchomić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: imobilizar (pt)
• Romanian: imobiliza (ro)
• Russian: иммобилизовать (ru) (immobilizovatʹ)
• Slovak: znehybniť, znehybňovať, imobilizovať
• Spanish: inmovilizar (es)
• Ukrainian: іммобілізувати (immobilizuvaty)