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