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immobilize

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Main Entry: immobilize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable

Synonyms:

action, attenuate, batter, blunt, cripple, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap*, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck
Main Entry: immobilize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tie

Synonyms:

bind*, bring to a screeching halt, clog, confine, curb, delay, entrammel, fetter, hog-tie, hold, idle, leash, limit, lock up, obstruct, restrain, restrict, shackle, stop, tie one's hands, tie up, trammel
Main Entry: cripple
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable; make lame

Synonyms:

attenuate, blunt, debilitate, disarm, dislimb, dismember, enfeeble, hamstring, hurt, immobilize, incapacitate, injure, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, palsy, paralyze, prostrate, sap, sideline, stifle, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken

Antonyms:

aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support
Main Entry: disable
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: render inoperative; cripple

Synonyms:

attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck

Antonyms:

aid, assist, enable, help, improve
Main Entry: hamstring
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable

Synonyms:

cripple, debilitate, handicap, hinder, hobble, immobilize, impair, lame, maim, mangle, paralyze, weaken
Main Entry: incapacitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put out of action

Synonyms:

clip wings, cripple, damage, disable, disarm, disenable, disqualify, hamstring, hinder, hog-tie, hurt, immobilize, lame, lay up, maim, paralyze, prostrate, put out of commission, take out, undermine, weaken

Antonyms:

allow, facilitate, mobilize, permit
Main Entry: numb
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deaden

Synonyms:

anesthetize, benumb, blunt, chill, desensitize, dull, freeze, frost, immobilize, obtund, paralyze, stun, stupefy

Antonyms:

enliven
Main Entry: overpower
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: beat; get the upper hand

Synonyms:

bear down, beat down, blank, blow away, bulldoze, bury, clobber, conquer, cream*, crush, defeat, drown, drub, immobilize, knock out, lay one out, murder*, overcome, overthrow, overwhelm, prostrate, put away, quell, reduce, roll over, rout, shellack, shut off, smash*, subdue, subjugate, swamp*, take care of, take out*, torpedo, total*, trash*, trounce, vanquish, waste*, wax, whelm

Antonyms:

surrender, yield
Main Entry: petrify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: frighten

Synonyms:

alarm, amaze, appall, astonish, astound, benumb, chill, confound, daze, dismay, dumbfound, horrify, immobilize, numb, paralyze, put chill on, scare, scare silly, scare stiff, spook, startle, stun, stupefy, terrify, transfix

Antonyms:

calm, comfort, please, soothe
Main Entry: pin
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attach, hold in place

Synonyms:

affix, bind, clasp, close, fasten, fix, hold down, hold fast, immobilize, join, pinion, press, restrain, secure

Antonyms:

detach, unfasten, unlatch, unpin
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