seize up
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seize up verb
- 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.”
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