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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This is the first post I’ve ever seen where the first ten responses are all correct and not jokes.

Yeah to make it really simple: no oil or coolant in a box filled with explosions (an engine) = extremely hot metal gouging itself apart and welding itself solid simultaneously.

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