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Definition of Paralyze

1. Verb. Make powerless and unable to function. "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

2. Verb. Cause to be paralyzed and immobile. "Fear paralyzed her"

Definition of Paralyze

1. v. t. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.

Definition of Paralyze

1. Verb. (transitive) To afflict with paralysis. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To render unable to move; to immobilize. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To render unable to function properly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paralyze

1. to render incapable of movement [v -LYZED, -LYZING, -LYZES]

Medical Definition of Paralyze

1. 1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralysed the community; despondency paralysed his efforts. Origin: F. Paralyser. See Paralysis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralyze

paralytic ectropion paralytic ileus paralytic mydriasis paralytic myoglobinuria paralytic rabies paralytic scoliosis paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin carbamoylase paralytic strabismus paralytical paralytically

paralytick paralytics paralyzant paralyzation paralyzations paralyze (current term) paralyzed paralyzer paralyzers paralyzes

paralyzing paralyzing vertigo paralyzingly paralyzis param paramagnet paramagnetic paramagnetically paramagneticlike paramagnetism

Literary usage of Paralyze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"Of what use were youth and grace and good looks, if one drop of poison distilled from the envy of a narrow- minded woman was enough to paralyze them? ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... have batteries of nettle-cells numerous and powerful enough to paralyze fishes, and cause much discomfort to human beings, even when the organisms in ..."

3. Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania: A Connected and Chronological Record of the by Alexander Kelly McClure (1905)
"... the Difficulty in Abandoning it When Nobody Wanted it—The October Elections paralyze the Democrats—The Democrats Frenzied by the Election of Lincoln. ..."

4. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1893)
"On the other hand, we may feel certain, from the position of the motor centers, that no single center of disease could paralyze simultaneously the leg and ..."

5. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"... and the moderates, who wanted to paralyze every thing by their effeminacy. The committee of public welfare had been thrice prorogued. ..."

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