immobilize
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And then, of course, spiders are venomous, toting enough toxin to immobilize and liquify prey and, in a few cases, cause lesions, necrosis or death in humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Snake venom is a complex cocktail of toxins, amino acids and proteins that evolved primarily to immobilize and kill prey, but it also prepares tissues for digestion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
“Once they’ve captured their prey, they immobilize it with a very sticky mucus or slime.”
From National Geographic ● Aug. 4, 2023
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were immobilize and mobilize.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
“Enough snow. Don’t want to immobilize the city, do we?”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
A stock market that supposedly facilitates capital flows thus immobilizes capital within companies.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Rb1 Nd6, and the beautifully placed Black knight immobilizes the proud White center and keeps the White rook from invading.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
Another gadget is an inflatable hug that immobilizes meanies in its enveloping embrace.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
Fukuyama and a virus that immobilizes people into teeth-chattering zombies — are as haunting as the villainous Shadow King, played by Audrey Plaza, who at times also appears as a nightmarishly pale, obese figure.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2018
He thrusts his hand out and immobilizes the trolls.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Without her devotion and interpretive intuition, the voice inside the immobilized body would have gone unheard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
It’s also known that Waymo pays humans to physically deal with vehicles immobilized by — for example — a passenger’s failure to fully close a car door when exiting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
The injuries observed suggest that orcas may have developed a refined technique to trigger this immobilized state while reducing the risk of being bitten.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025
I don't have the privilege of being immobilized, so since Wednesday morning I've been working on what I can do to help the situation in any way that I possibly can.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
They would keep chugging in winter, when canal traffic was immobilized by ice.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Trainers were immobilizing the leg before the cart even reached Lathan.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
Zelda Williams took to Twitter to share that the Oscar winner, who died at 63 in 2014, likely would have supported the SAG-AFTRA strike that’s currently immobilizing Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
The original architecture for immobilizing the tank waste was to chemically separate it, using the now-mothballed treatment plant, into low and high radioactive streams.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
His knee was in an immobilizing brace when he came back to the Crimson Tide bench.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with immobilizing darts.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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