Immobilise
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
Trap
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe.To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.To leave suddenly, to flee.To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense.A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself.Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.A kind of movable stepladder.A persons' mouth.(plural) belongingsA transvestite, a man that one engages in a relationship with, believing him to be a woman.An exception generated by the processor.A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
Example sentence: The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.