immobilise

Other forms of immobilise

past tense

immobilised·

present participle

immobilising·

third person

immobilises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immobilise

What does immobilise mean?

immobilise means "hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in immobilise?

immobilise has 4 syllables: im-mo-bi-lise. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for immobilise?

Close synonyms include immobilize, trap, pin, immobilize, immobilize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immobilise a common word?

immobilise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.