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/ɪmˈoʊbəl/ /ɪmˈoʊbˌaɪl/ /ɪmˈoʊbˌil/ Listen

Immobile

adjective

Not capable of movement or of being moved.

Securely fixed in place. Synonyms: fast, firm.

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"Immobile" Quotes from Famous Books

... themselves to the immobile-featured Celestial when they had jointly and severally inspected the house from top to bottom. Sam Foo gazed at them, listened to their account of themselves, and disappeared. He re-entered the ...

— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... Miami faithfully obeyed orders. He sat immobile and silent, watching the daring young warrior making off not only with his private property, but with that which ...

— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis

... Motionless, immobile, save for a slow smile, Antony Ferrara stood, and Cairn kept his eyes upon the evil face, and with ...

— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer

... was open. A torrid heat entered along with the clouds of dust; the flames of the four candles were flickering in the direction of the immobile corpse, and upon the cloth which covered the face, the closed eyes, the two hands stretched out, small flies alighted, came, went, and careered up and down incessantly, being the only companions of the old woman ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

... Augustus. Valentine looked attentively in the failing light at the majestic wreck of the tall, fine old man. He made out that the eyes were closed, and that the face had its usual immobile, untroubled expression, and the last words startled him. "I have thought it best," he continued, "not to leave you anything ...

— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow

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