What is "immobilise"

Usage examples of "immobilise".

I thrashed as if galvanised and it took him a moment to immobilise my other arm long enough to repeat the process.

She gave him a hefty push which sent him stumbling over the guests still immobilised under the table.

I would have thought there would be no chance in the world of you being as mad as that - they immobilised your engine.

The Riflemen, changing their positions to aim past the smoke of their previous shots, were shooting the draught horses so the guns could not be moved and killing the gunners so the immobilised guns could not be fired.

She lunged for it but her legs gave way as Solchaim immobilised her in the same way as he had immobilised Makartur.

For the moment, one of the ploughs was out of order, a bolt had slipped, a lever refused to work, or a machine had become immobilised in heavy ground, or a horse had lamed himself.

That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence.

Charles Bobet stood on the roadside next to his immobilised taxi, looked at his watch and swore.

The whole thing was a most imposing creation, obviously designed by somebody who had never seen a cow calved and having the disadvantage that anybody wearing it would be pretty well immobilised.

It immobilises me just as effectively as any gentleman of the Dark could do—if our friend had had any foresight, he needn’t have bothered to grab poor Rufus.

It immobilises me just as effectively as any gentleman of the Dark could do - if our friend had had any foresight, he needn't have bothered to grab poor Rufus.

I mean, just immobilising the chopper itself wouldn't be anything, really, would it?

Those few field men and armourers he knew who had used the Astra advised that it required half the magazine to ensure immobilising any enemy.

Another door opened noiselessly, and Mr Verloc immobilising his glance in that direction saw at first only black clothes, the bald top of a head, and a drooping dark grey whisker on each side of a pair of wrinkled hands.

Having bound her ankles and wrists they were now immobilising her arms and legs with more ropes.