Verb
To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. Michel de Montaigne
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. Henri Bergson
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? Arundhati Roy
Blocked funds Source: Internet
Freeze the assets of this hostile government Source: Internet
The sudden storm immobilized the traffic Source: Internet