seize up
Verb
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Verb
seize up
- (figuratively) To stop functioning; to come to a halt.
- Iceland's foreign currency market has seized up after the three largest banks collapsed.
- (of muscles) To stiffen or become tight and difficult to move.
- It was hard to write as my fingers had seized up with the cold weather.
- (of a machine) To stop working suddenly, and become impossible to start again.
- My car seized up this morning. So I had to catch the bus.
- (stop functioning) freeze, freeze up, grind to a halt
- Italian: intorpidirsi
- Russian: своди́ть
- Spanish: agarrotarse
- Italian: gripparsi
- Spanish: agarrotarse, trabarse
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