seize up
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
When a machine or part of your body gets completely stuck and cannot move.
"The engine seized up after the driver ignored the oil warning light for too long."
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Devastation on the Horizon | Gathering Storm MEGA Episode | National Geographic
National Geographic · 13:35
How'd it seize up?
Protect Punch The Monkey At All Costs | The Basement Yard #546
The Basement Yard · 4:52
it'll it'll just like seize up.
The Fear of Being Seen and the Strange Way Out
Joe Hudson | Art of Accomplishment · 8:52
What is making my entire body seize up?
Blowing Up a Bike
The People's Court · 5:39
Things seize up when they sit for a while.
How NASA Discovered a Military Base under Greenland
Real Engineering · 3:36
Engines won’t start up and hydraulic pistons seize up.