Translations for „seize up“ in the English » German Dictionary

seize up VB intr

1. seize up:

seize up engine, machine

stehen bleiben

seize up brain

aussetzen

seize up economy

zum Erliegen kommen

2. seize up back, muscles:

seize up

steif [o. unbeweglich] werden

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Now, the 31-year-old is hoping to experience as much of life as she can before her muscles seize up for good.

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As with marketing analysts of the past, some programmers seize up with eye rolls at the mention of intuition.

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The global paper money system tends to seize up as soon as it starts going in reverse.

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It did seize up a couple of times with blocked airways.

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Trains seize up, schools close and everybody gets a day off.

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Below freezing, moving parts in the hard drive and motor start to seize up.

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The worry is that its cities will simply seize up.

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Climbing into our sleeping bags was bliss and neither of us contemplated hunting the next day as we thought we'd both seize up overnight.

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This is not normally a problem but funding can seize up in a crisis.

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In the main, the diaphragm would arc from being overdriven, or the audio transformer would seize up from being exposed to excessive voltages.

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