seize up in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for seize up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADV up often appears as the second element of certain verb structures in English (back up, pick up, sit up, etc). For translations, see the relevant verb entry (back, pick, sit, etc).

1.1. up (in upward direction):

up a bitleft a bit
up United! Brit

II.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] PREP

III.up [Am əp, Brit ʌp] ADJ

IV.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB trans inf

V.up <pres part upping; pt, pp upped> [Am əp, Brit ʌp] VB intr

See also come up to

seize up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for seize up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

IV.up <-pp-> [ʌp] VB intr inf

British English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Below freezing, moving parts in the hard drive and motor start to seize up.
www.independent.co.uk
He would pick it until he tripped the detector mechanism, causing the lock to seize up.
www.slate.com
The worry is that its cities will simply seize up.
www.bbc.co.uk
Its little hard drive will seize up, and cease.
www.wired.com
It's a fallback plan so the financial system doesn't seize up unnecessarily.
www.ibtimes.co.uk
What if the credit markets seize up (again) and you are unable to roll over your banking facilities?
www.dynamicbusiness.com.au
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.
www.stuff.co.nz
As with marketing analysts of the past, some programmers seize up with eye rolls at the mention of intuition.
www.campaignlive.co.uk
Engineers suspect water seeped into the bearings, causing them to corrode and seize up.
www.ctvnews.ca
Trade mediated by less-direct forms of credit is vulnerable to outside financial crises and may seize up, resulting in depression.
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