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immobilized

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verb

past tense of immobilize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for immobilized
Adjective
  • Angela works at a strip club where women’s clothes come off not through dances but via jump cuts; their faces are expressionless and their bodies immobile, as if they’ve been reduced to deadpan pin-up poses.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • That is, if the rider is immobile for more than 15 seconds.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • When McCarthy was ousted in October 2023, the House was paralyzed for three weeks before Republicans coalesced around Johnson.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • This 35-year old man, paralyzed by polio, was condemned for the rest of his life to be a prisoner of the machine compressing and releasing his lungs.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But there is no precedent for forcibly removing an incapacitated member who had taken the oath of office that Congress.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Both were charged with felony neglect of an incapacitated adult by a caregiver resulting in the incapacitated adult’s death.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • His vengeance included turning Michigan State in for NCAA violations, leading to probation that crippled the program until the late 1970s.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • As the city litigated and revised the environmental impact report, two devastating storms in December 2023 and February 2024 — the same series that crippled San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier — substantially damaged the wharf.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The coronavirus crisis dealt another serious blow to Blackpool, leaving businesses struggling as tourism ground to a halt ‌during nationwide lockdowns.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • This is when the fairytale comes crashing to a halt smack-dab in the middle of the Footprint Center.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
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“Immobilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immobilized. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

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