All immobilise synonyms
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I i verb immobilise
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- arrest β If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- disable β make not work
- cripple β A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- debilitate β If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- disarm β to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- incapacitate β to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
- mangle β to smooth or press with a mangle.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- paralyse β to affect with paralysis.
- shatter β to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- action β Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- attenuate β To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
- batter β If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- blunt β If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- disenable β to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
- disqualify β to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
- enervate β Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- enfeeble β Make weak or feeble.
- exhaust β Drain (someone) of their physical or mental resources; tire out.
- hamstring β (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handicap β a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- hock β the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- invalidate β to render invalid; discredit.
- kibosh β nonsense.
- maim β to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- muzzle β the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
- pinion β the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
- prostrate β to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- sabotage β any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
- sap β Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- total β constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- unbrace β to remove the braces of.
- undermine β to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- unfit β not fit; not adapted or suited; unsuitable: He was unfit for his office.
- weaken β to make weak or weaker.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- hogtie β to tie (an animal) with all four feet together.
- knock out β to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- shoot down β the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
- take out β the act of taking.
- tie β to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.