Synonyms of the word

immobilize

• v. To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

curtail

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal.
• v. (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
• n. (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

freeze

• v. (intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
• v. (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
• v. (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
• v. (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
• v. (intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness,…
• v. (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
• v. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
• v. (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets.
• n. A period of intensely cold weather.
• n. A halt of a regular operation.
• n. (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to…
• n. (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary…
• n. (specifically, in finance) A block on pay rises.
• n. Obsolete form of frieze.

immobilise

• v. Alternative spelling of immobilize.

pin

• n. A sewing pin, sometimes called a ballhead pin, which is a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out…
• n. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
• n. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
• n. (wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed…
• n. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
• n. (in plural pins; informal) A leg.
• n. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
• n. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
• n. (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing…
• n. (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece…
• n. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole.
• n. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area).
• n. (dated) A mood, a state of being.
• n. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) caligo.
• n. A thing of small value; a trifle.
• n. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
• n. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
• n. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
• n. (Britain, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
• n. (informal) A pinball machine.
• v. (often followed by a preposition such as to or on) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
• v. (chess, usually passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
• v. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
• v. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
• v. Alternative form of peen.

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

trap

• n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
• n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
• n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
• n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
• n. The game of trapball itself.
• n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
• n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
• n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
• n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
• n. (slang) A person's mouth.
• n. (in the plural) Belongings.
• n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
• n. (sports) Trapshooting.
• n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
• n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
• n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
• n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
• n. A kind of movable stepladder.
• n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
• v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
• v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
• v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
• v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
• v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
• n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
• v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
• n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

withhold

• v. (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to…
• v. (transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.