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[syn: paralytic, paralyzed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Paralyze \Par"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paralyzed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Paralyzing.] [F. paralyser. See Paralysis.]
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1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.
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2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to
render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the
community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
paralyzed
adj 1: affected with paralysis [syn: paralytic, paralyzed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "paralyzed":
aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck,
blanched, blind, blind drunk, blotto, contemplative, cowed,
crippled, deadly pale, disabled, disarmed, disqualified,
do-nothing, dormant, frozen, gray with fear, hamstrung, helpless,
hog-tied, horrified, horror-struck, idle, immobile, inactive,
incapacitated, inert, intimidated, invalidated, laissez-aller,
laissez-faire, meditative, motionless, neuter, neutral, out,
out cold, overcome, pale as death, pallid, paralytic, passed out,
passive, petrified, procrastinating, prostrate, quiescent,
quietist, quietistic, scared stiff, scared to death, stagnant,
stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, stiff, stoned, stunned,
stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden,
terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck,
terror-troubled, under the table, undone, unmanned, unnerved,
unstrung, vegetable, vegetative