I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether.

我试图关机，而它完全失灵了。

youdao

The engine has seized up and stopped.

机器卡住不动了。

《新英汉大辞典》

First the money markets seized up, as Banks hoarded spare cash.

首先，由于银行囤积了备用金，货币市场停止运作。

youdao

The work ended up in a Vienna museum, but was seized by the U.S.government while it was on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Interesting. Even though the market seized up very dramatically afterwards and we had some of the most difficult short-term financial consequences of that failure?

有意思，尽管市场严重失灵,我们面临着,许多短期的,非常严重的后果？

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They were the means the banks used to finance lending before the wholesale markets seized up.

BBC: Martha Kearney's week

Should he just have stood by while credit seized up and ATMs stopped working?

FORBES: Will The Bernanke Haters Please Shut Up?

It is presumed that the market for the riskiest mortgage-backed securities has seized up.

FORBES: Yes, there is a market for toxic mortgages.