seize up
phrasal verbwithseizeverbuk/siːz/us/siːz/
informaltostopbeingabletomoveorworkin thenormalway:
动弹不得;出故障;失灵Thewashingmachinetotallyseizedup onThursday.星期四的时候洗衣机彻底坏掉了。
Thetraffichadseizedup formilesbecause of theroadworks.由于道路施工,车辆堵了好几英里。
Machines - not functioning
- act
- blink
- break
- brokenness
- brownout
- burn out
- conk
- conk out
- cut
- cutsomethingout
- DDoS
- dead
- defective
- dysfunction
- fritz
- idle
- incapacitate
- shudder to a haltidiom
- stall
- temperamentally