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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
immobilise .
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Examples
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I'm no stranger to pain but I know that the kind of immobilised living death at the scary end of potential outcomes is more than I could take.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Early Wednesday morning, a man was "immobilised" by bodyguards and police on the seventh floor of the hospital.
BBC - Ouch 2009
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In school we were all forced to play football (soccer), rugby (I was the hooker) and cricket; I was reasonably good at cricket and, as a fast bowler, immobilised a number of the opposite team for the duration of the game.
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He made various postures looking for an opening, while I just stood as relaxed as I could making small moves to avoid his various attacks, I have always been a very positive person and on this occasion I made one positive attack punching him in the head knocking him to the ground, I dropped on top him and immobilised him, he was unable to move, I asked Sensei, is that enough?
Aikido in the UK – the Beginning « English Lesson Plans « Free Lesson Plans « Literacy News 2010
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Even sex, she notes, “was an important part of the project of undoing the constraints we perceived our elders to have been immobilised by.”
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski » Print 2009
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Murray hit 56 clean winners against his immobilised opponent, although dropped serve once in each set as his concentration wavered slightly.
Andy Murray on cruise control but Tsonga comes to an end 2012
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Even sex, she notes, “was an important part of the project of undoing the constraints we perceived our elders to have been immobilised by.”
Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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Even from a relatively close distance she seemed entirely immobilised.
The Queen's first visit to Wimbledon since 1977 rouses excitement 2010
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In the silken den of a rather splendid orb-web spider called Larinioides cornutus, I notice how she has four stiff-bristled legs curved around the soft body of her latest immobilised fly.
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Jones calls Leonardo's sly, witchy portrait the "hidden enemy" from whose seduction Michelangelo's gyrating, immobilised statues try to flee.
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