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verb

1. 1

   To stop functioning; to come to a halt.

   “Iceland's foreign currency market has seized up after the three largest banks collapsed.”

2. 2

   (of muscles) To stiffen or become tight and difficult to move.

   “It was hard to write as my fingers had seized up with the cold weather.”

3. 3

   (of a machine) To stop working suddenly, and become impossible to start again.

   “My car seized up this morning. So I had to catch the bus.”