The word 'immobilise' is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word 'immobilise' to mean 'to make someone or something unable to move or act'. For example, "The ankle injury immobilised her for weeks."
The officers, who carried shields and truncheons but not firearms, used martial arts such as ju-jitsu and capoeira to immobilise demonstrators spoiling for a fight.
At another Caracas hospital, a few days earlier, doctors were complaining they had to immobilise fractured limbs using cardboard boxes, because splints and bandages were in such short supply.The authorities dismiss these stories as part of a media campaign to destabilise the government.
The goal is not only to immobilise terrorists but also to wean away the sympathisers who shelter them.
SCLERODERMA, which hardens the skin and then goes on to immobilise many of the body's internal organs, looks very different from multiple sclerosis, which cripples its victims by stripping away the protective sheaths of their nerve cells.
If necessary, Flash can immobilise a car from afar.Its chief selling point, however, is its breakdown service.
Once in force, the new law will mean only police or councils will be allowed to immobilise or remove a car in exceptional circumstances, such as a car blocking a road.
If only I had had the x-ray at the time and immobilised the shoulder properly by way of a sling, it would not have been so completely immobile more than four months later.
Monkeys were forcibly dragged from their cages, had parts of their skulls removed and electrodes implanted into their brains, were restrained and immobilised by their heads for hours, and deprived of water for days.
They were not martyrs, China said, but criminals associated with "imperialists and colonialists".Britain protested to Myanmar after James Mawdsley, a British human-rightsrights campaigner, was reported to have been severely beaten in prison, where he is serving a 17-year sentence.See article: Aung San Suu Kyi immobilised.
There is no denying, though, that the superfluity could have been better handled, and that the poor freezing wretches immobilised outside deserved better.Inside, temperature and stasis are not a problem; things are simply slower.
Jack Triplett, an economist at the Brookings Institution, cites cataract surgery as an example: "At one time you had to spend ten days immobilised in intensive care.
