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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
immobilize .
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Examples
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When we worry, our mind immobilizes the whole of us.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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How much can he take before just the thought of going to school immobilizes him?
Timothy D. Slekar: The Bartleby Project: 'I Prefer Not to Take Your Standardized Test' Timothy D. Slekar 2011
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His description of what it is to live with a disease that immobilizes your limbs and your capacity for speech, but leaves you able to feel and remember, is pitiless and unpitying, but it is among the most touching vindications of the power of language that I have read.
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In these cases, the flu virus immobilizes toll-like receptor cells in the immune system that normally would fight off bacterial infections.
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His description of what it is to live with a disease that immobilizes your limbs and your capacity for speech, but leaves you able to feel and remember, is pitiless and unpitying, but it is among the most touching vindications of the power of language that I have read.
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How much can he take before just the thought of going to school immobilizes him?
Timothy D. Slekar: The Bartleby Project: 'I Prefer Not to Take Your Standardized Test' Timothy D. Slekar 2011
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How much can he take before just the thought of going to school immobilizes him?
March Madness: 'My name is Luke and I refuse to take your test' 2011
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If you're shooting off a sandbag supporting the barrel only, breathing will have a bigger impact than if the entire weapon is in a vise type bench rest that immobilizes the entire weapon.
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Howell "likens the shoe to a cast that immobilizes an otherwise healthy foot and prevents it from functioning as nature intended," the article says.
Barefoot professor in Virginia preaches shoelessness Daniel de Vise 2010
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If you're shooting off a sandbag supporting the barrel only, breathing will have a bigger impact than if the entire weapon is in a vise type bench rest that immobilizes the entire weapon.
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