immobilized 1 of 2

past tense of immobilize

immobilized

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of immobilized
Verb
Almost overnight, companies across the country became immobilized, and face-to-face business models broke down. Suresh Rajapakse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
After slipping downstairs and getting poisoned, among other humiliating acts, Carr ends up in a body cast and in a puddle of his own waste with his arm immobilized in a persistent sieg heil. Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025 Two seconds, three, all of us immobilized in shock while my son, the toddler, went down like a ship’s anchor, all the way down through nine feet of water to the dappled sloping bottom. T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025 But, at the time, the news was devastating; Stein-Lobovits spent many months sobbing on the couch, immobilized by loss and fear. Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025 After he was immobilized, officers shocked him multiple times with a stun gun, according to the lawsuit. Christina Hall, Freep.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Freshman tight end Jacob Alvarez is also among the injured, wearing a cast on his right arm that immobilized his thumb. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025 People avoided crowded places during epidemics, and hospital wards filled with children encased in iron lungs after the virus immobilized their breathing muscles. CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immobilized
Verb
  • Was Gerry Bertier really paralyzed?
    Jessica Booth, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • What people didn’t realize is we were paralyzed with fear.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Because things have been so bad and the 40-year-old Flacco is so immobile, a change would be understandable.
    Zac Jackson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • After copulating, the two males lay immobile on the seafloor as the female swam away.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Another hunter had crippled him.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Such a finding could’ve crippled the operations of Google, Meta and X, among various others.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One caller said a delta-8 gummy incapacitated their adult son for several hours.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Another note that came up in the responses to this question is that everyone, of any age, should make sure that there are plans in place for a friend or relative to take care of the dog if the owner is incapacitated or dies.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Immobilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immobilized. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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