seize up
informal— phrasal verb with seize uk/siːz/us/siːz/verb
to stop being able to move or work in the normal way:
The washing machine totally seized up on Thursday.
The traffic had seized up for miles because of the roadworks.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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