immobilize

• immobilise

From French immobiliser.

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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.

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

• immobilization
• immobilizer
• photoimmobilize