Synonyms for immobilize
Definitions
- v. 1
To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
It is best to immobilize the injury until a doctor can examine it.
- v. 2
To render incapable of action.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- decelerate hinder
- Other spellings
- immobilise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- immobilized
e.g. immobilized → stopped, blocked, halted, trapped…
Example sentences
- block The statue was carved from a block of cherry wood.
- freeze Don't cross your eyes or they'll freeze that way.
- trap I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
- pin Does someone other than you know what your PIN is?
- paralyze Decisions once easy now paralyze me with indecision.
By length
- 3 letters
- pin1
- 4 letters
- stop1, hold1, trap1, halt1
- 5 letters
- block1, stick1
- 6 letters
- freeze1
- 8 letters
- paralyze3, paralyse
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (paralyze3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- immobiliser
- Italiano
- immobilizzare
- Español
- inmovilizar
- Català
- immobilitzar