as in immobile
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as in paralyzed
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
town councils felt immobilized by the powers newly granted to the state legislation
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Recent Examples of immobilized
Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2026
Social media postings showed immobilized autonomous vehicles flashing their hazard lights.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025
The assets frozen in Europe account for most of Moscow’s immobilized assets globally.
—Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
European Union leaders are set to review on Thursday proposals aimed at using proceeds from immobilized Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine’s huge budget and defence needs — something Moscow fiercely opposes.
—Reuters, NBC news, 17 Dec. 2025
Valentino, 82, alleged Cosby drove her to a nearby office and raped her while she was too immobilized to fight back.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Almost overnight, companies across the country became immobilized, and face-to-face business models broke down.
—Suresh Rajapakse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Bryant, Adkins return Wednesday also marked rookie receiver Pat Bryant’s first appearance in Broncos gear since a scary late-game hit in Week 16 against Jacksonville, resulting in Bryant being immobilized and sent to the hospital for a concussion.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 1 Jan. 2026
Euroclear, a securities depository in Belgium, holds most of the Russian assets immobilized in the EU.
—Olesya Dmitracova, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
The operation is sounding alarm bells on Capitol Hill, where Democrats — and even some Republicans — are questioning the legality of killing adversaries after they’d been immobilized.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2025
Although those around her believe that Grace, an aspiring author who is unable to get started on her book, is immobilized by the weight of motherhood, what’s actually happening seems to be much more complex.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Therefore, the researchers suggest that in pure ice, radiation byproducts such as free radicals become trapped and immobilized, slowing the chemical breakdown of biological molecules.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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
Adjective
The fleeing truck continued on, hit a parked RV and became immobilized.
—Verb
It’s also known that Waymo pays humans to physically deal with vehicles immobilized by — for example — a passenger’s failure to fully close a car door when exiting.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for immobilized
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The lawsuit also claims Cortez’s truck was immobile due to the crash and could not have accelerated toward the officers.—
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Lack of sidewalk leaves some residents immobile Susan Mulheren is a big clothes, shoes and jewelry person.—
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Hawking’s work on the physics of black holes helped reshape the scientific understanding of the universe, even after being diagnosed with a motor neuron disease also known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, early in life that gradually paralyzed him.—
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Economists have attributed this to high uncertainty (in part due to massive shifts in trade and immigration policy) that has paralyzed much business investment.—
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In Wrightwood, the recent torrential rainfall delivered devastating mudslides that have crippled the mountain town.—
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The pioneering college opened in 1885 and weathered difficult times early on, as the infamous winter freeze of 1894 destroyed orange groves throughout the state and crippled a key revenue source for Rollins, Lane wrote in his history of the school.—
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One caller said a delta-8 gummy incapacitated their adult son for several hours.—
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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.—
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“Immobilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immobilized. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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