Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to immobilize
Participle: immobilized
Gerund: immobilizing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | immobilize |
| you | immobilize |
| he;she;it | immobilizes |
| we | immobilize |
| you | immobilize |
| they | immobilize |
Perfect
| I | have immobilized |
| you | have immobilized |
| he;she;it | has immobilized |
| we | have immobilized |
| you | have immobilized |
| they | have immobilized |
Past
| I | immobilized |
| you | immobilized |
| he;she;it | immobilized |
| we | immobilized |
| you | immobilized |
| they | immobilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had immobilized |
| you | had immobilized |
| he;she;it | had immobilized |
| we | had immobilized |
| you | had immobilized |
| they | had immobilized |
Future
| I | will immobilize |
| you | will immobilize |
| he;she;it | will immobilize |
| we | will immobilize |
| you | will immobilize |
| they | will immobilize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have immobilized |
| you | will have immobilized |
| he;she;it | will have immobilized |
| we | will have immobilized |
| you | will have immobilized |
| they | will have immobilized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | immobilize |
| you | immobilize |
| he;she;it | immobilize |
| we | immobilize |
| you | immobilize |
| they | immobilize |
Perfect
| I | have immobilized |
| you | have immobilized |
| he;she;it | have immobilized |
| we | have immobilized |
| you | have immobilized |
| they | have immobilized |
Imperfect
| I | immobilized |
| you | immobilized |
| he;she;it | immobilized |
| we | immobilized |
| you | immobilized |
| they | immobilized |
Pluperfect
| I | had immobilized |
| you | had immobilized |
| he;she;it | had immobilized |
| we | had immobilized |
| you | had immobilized |
| they | had immobilized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would immobilize |
| you | would immobilize |
| he;she;it | would immobilize |
| we | would immobilize |
| you | would immobilize |
| they | would immobilize |
Perfect
| I | would have immobilized |
| you | would have immobilized |
| he;she;it | would have immobilized |
| we | would have immobilized |
| you | would have immobilized |
| they | would have immobilized |
Imperative
| you | immobilize |
| we | Let's immobilize |
| you | immobilize |
Verbs conjugated like 'immobilize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'immobilize'
immobilise,
demobilize,
mobilize,
reimmobilize,
remobilize,
demobilise,
immortalize,
mobilise,
remobilise,
aerobicize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- cause someone to become motionless
- freeze
- to cause to cease moving
- stop
- to stop the motion of
- arrest
- to cause something to stop
- halt
- to render motionless; to cause something to stop moving
- arrest, draw up, freeze, halt, stop
- To stop moving.
- stop
Antonyms
- to render motionless; to cause something to stop moving
- accelerate, continue, move
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From French immobiliser, equivalent to immobile + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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It is best to immobilize the injury until a doctor can examine it.
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[…]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there. [1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:]
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Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008). [2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343:]
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This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes. [2012, Rob Benvie, Maintenance:]
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Fully autonomous vehicles have raised safety concerns. California enacted a law this year that will, among other things, require manufacturers to continuously monitor every autonomous vehicle on the road and designate a remote human operator to immobilize a vehicle if necessary. [2024 December 25, Elaine S. Povich, “Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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It's clear from these [budget] cuts that the MCAD is virtually immobilized as an effective organization for at least the next year. [1975 December 27, “Editorial”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 4:]
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Don't immobilize your capital in aging accounts.