seize up
— Phrasal Verb with seize /siːz/ verb [T]Definition
› If part of your body or a machine seizes up, it stops moving or working in the normal way: His right leg suddenly seized up during the race.
(Definition of seize up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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