What is a seized engine?

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I was watching a video on Dunkirk and was told that soldiers would run truck engines dry to cause them seize and rendering them useless to the Germans. What is an engine seize? Can those engines be salvaged? Or would the Germans in this scenario know it’s hopeless and scrap the engine completely?

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Seized means stuck. They make the engine stuck so it doesn’t move anymore.

In most cases doing it this way, the engine is no good anymore. Because it damages the block that everything on the engine is attached to!

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