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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Someone drained the oil out, and the metal parts in the engine get stuck together through heat and friction. They expand into each other and is irreversible to fix without some serious, time-consuming work.

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