Definition of "immobilising" [immobilising]

• Present participle of immobilise. (verb)

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• "It is in politics, though, that phony indignation's immobilising effect is most keenly felt."
• "Scotland are waiting for news on the wing Max Evans, who was forced off with an ankle injury and left Cardiff on crutches and wearing an immobilising boot."
• ""It is evidently pleasing to many people," the demographer J Richard Udry observed dryly in a 1970 paper comprehensively disproving the theory, "to fantasise that when people are trapped by some immobilising event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation"."