render sb immobile

Frequency: 4.21.3 per million words

A more formal way to say to make someone unable to move, often by an external force or condition.

immobileVERBS + immobile

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render sb

Examples (10)

  • The powerful tranquilizer would render him immobile for hours.
  • A sudden fear can render a person temporarily immobile.
  • The heavy snowstorm might render the entire city immobile.
  • His severe injuries had rendered him completely immobile.
  • The thick fog threatened to render all vehicles immobile on the highway.
  • The news of the disaster rendered her immobile with shock.
  • The advanced security system aims to render intruders immobile.
  • Without power, the machinery would be rendered immobile.
  • The paralysis can render the patient partially or wholly immobile.
  • A strong electric current can instantly render a subject immobile.