What is "immobilize"

Usage examples of "immobilize".

The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms.

The trooper next to him took the blow on her saber, under the axhead, bringing her shield arm around to immobilize it.

Eventually Hitler scrapped the rest, after the Bismarck was sunk and the other battleships immobilized at their moomvs by RAFbombs.

Romilly gasped as Betta twisted her upper body, jerked the woman forward and flung her to her knees, her arm immobilized behind her back.

Immobilized in gel, breathing thick oxygen-rich fluid, Kenneth Lafarge was one with the machine.

For the very end of myths is to immobilize the world: they must suggest and mimic a universal order which has fixated once and for all the hierarchy of possessions.

Kelvan was engaged in combat with the scimitar-wielding assassin, and Sheeta and Naris were magically immobilized.

Professor Wolfgang Erhofen, of the Yale Psychophysics Department, reported that in questioning several hundred persons kidnapped by the invader, it was discovered that two of the victims, who had been in auto accidents, were wearing the usual steel neckbrace collars to immobilize broken necks or spines.

Before Hook finished his story, the eyes of the stickman began to glow, and suddenly the table shook as he tried to escape the bands of strong tape that had been wrapped all around him, pinioning his arms to his sides, immobilizing his legs.

Herr Felsner-Imbs the piano teacher, with his piano and his yellowish stacks of music, his goldfish and his hourglass, his countless photographs of once famous artists, and his porcelain figurine in a porcelain tutu, immobilized on pointed porcelain slipper in a perfect arabesque, moved into the empty apartment, without changing the faded wallpaper in the living room or the large flower pattern that covered the walls of the bedroom.

By dint of much grappling and punching the guards succeeded in silencing and immobilizing the eunuchs, who were utterly perplexed by this new turn of events.

Pollolo, eyestalks squeezed shut, could only make the pleading sounds and his own shrill keening, immobilized.

The gawks looked confused and immobilized now that their Verities were all in disarray.

Her head was flat against the ground, one of the Harpers keeping her head immobilized by the simple expedient of having one of his taloned feet atop it.

He snickered and she felt him drive his forearm across the small of her back, immobilizing her with his weight.