IMMOBILIZED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in immobile

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verb

past tense of immobilize

as in paralyzed

to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move town councils felt immobilized by the powers newly granted to the state legislation

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Adjective

Also unclear is which soldiers would be selected to fire on Hasan, as well as the optics around showing the firing squad death of an immobilized 56-year-old man in a wheelchair. — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2026 Being completely immobilized and nearly butchered by Jean could easily lead to a lifelong hatred of mutantkind. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026 According to local outlet Listin Diario, Bonilla had undergone surgery to have rods and screws inserted into her back after a tumor was removed, though one screw allegedly pierced her spinal cord, leaving her immobilized from the ribs down. — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026 Before leaving, the team blew up the immobilized aircraft to prevent sophisticated technology from falling into Iranian hands. — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026 Try taking a census of the immobilized population of Los Angeles — otherwise known as our civic statues, rendered in metal or stone. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 Valentino, 82, says Cosby drove her to a nearby office and raped her while she was too immobilized to fight back. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2026 Among those paralyzed, 5 to 10 percent die when their breathing muscles become immobilized, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 6 Mar. 2026 Also repurposing Russian immobilized assets, hundreds of billions of dollars in European bank accounts. — U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026

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Young, in his first full season in the majors, was immobilized on a cart and then taken off the field. — New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 The bear was immobilized with a tranquilizing dart and then euthanized on site at Delta Lake inside the park, a remote backcountry location, according to park authorities. — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 The casts that immobilized his broken and crushed bones are long gone, too. — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026 After it was immobilized, the driver attempted to leave the vehicle and was apprehended by officers, according to NEA Report. — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2026 Bathed in the glow of a virtual reality that evolves, unassisted, so rapidly, we are increasingly immobilized. — Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026 In other words, failure of our major institutions need not leave the public powerless and immobilized. — Anandita Sabherwal, Time, 3 Aug. 2026 When knees, ankles and other joints with muscles around them are immobilized, those muscles can atrophy. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 July 2026 Increasingly immobilized by zero-sum politics, the federal government remains powerful in theory but is losing much of its capacity to solve many of the nation’s most pressing problems. — John Eger, Mercury News, 17 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for immobilized

Adjective

There’s no explosive element to the Giants’ running game, which doesn’t figure to change with this group of backs and the immobile Winston at quarterback.

— Doug Haller, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Verity is immobile and catatonic, and Lowen learns that the family’s life is also darkened by a child’s accidental death.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of immobile

Verb

He is crippled by doubt, convinced that others are gaining on him.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents and purposes had ceased to function.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of crippled

Adjective

Hasan was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back by law enforcement and now uses a wheelchair.

— Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
When her aunt Helena and paralyzed grandmother Regina arrive, the fragile boundaries between everyday life, ancestral superstition and Trina’s increasingly disturbing nightmares begin to collapse.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of paralyzed

Verb

The Vatican has no specific rules on how the leadership of the Catholic Church is transferred should the pope be incapacitated.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Medical advances and popes’ longer lifespans, however, have highlighted this gap in church law and prompted calls for the Vatican to prepare for a pope becoming too ill or incapacitated to govern.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of incapacitated

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