say it: im-OH-buh-lahy-zing
immobilizing is a noun meaning "the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement". It is pronounced /ˌɪˈmoʊbəˌlaɪzɪŋ/ — im-OH-buh-lahy-zing. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
“the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for immobilizing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.