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All immobilize synonyms

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verb immobilize

  • disable β€” make not work
  • paralyze β€” to affect with paralysis.
  • debilitate β€” If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
  • shatter β€” to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
  • incapacitate β€” to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
  • 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.
  • cripple β€” A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
  • mutilate β€” to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
  • mangle β€” to smooth or press with a mangle.
  • disarm β€” to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
  • clog β€” When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
  • shackle β€” a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
  • tie up β€” that with which anything is tied.
  • restrain β€” to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • lock up β€” a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • invalidate β€” to render invalid; discredit.
  • harm β€” a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
  • hamstring β€” (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • unfit β€” not fit; not adapted or suited; unsuitable: He was unfit for his office.
  • sap β€” Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
  • hock β€” the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
  • weaken β€” to make weak or weaker.
  • muzzle β€” the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
  • total β€” constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • wreck β€” any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
  • 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.
  • damage β€” To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
  • 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.
  • blunt β€” If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hurt β€” to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • batter β€” If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
  • 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.
  • undermine β€” to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
  • prostrate β€” to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • 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.
  • attenuate β€” To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
  • action β€” Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
  • disqualify β€” to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
  • unbrace β€” to remove the braces of.
  • disenable β€” to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.
  • pinion β€” the distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
  • obstruct β€” to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • delay β€” If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
  • confine β€” To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
  • fetter β€” a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
  • bind β€” If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
  • stop β€” to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
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