2. Verb. (present participle of paralyse) ¹
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Definition of Paralysing
1. paralyse [v] - See also: paralyse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralysing
Literary usage of Paralysing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"... have to stand in the same sentences with Morny, and Fleury, and Maupas, and
St Arnaud, formerly Le Roy. It was necessary to take measures for paralysing ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1873)
"NOTE ON THE paralysing ACTION OF ACONITE ON THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE. BY FREDERIC
BAGSHAWE, MA., MD CANTAB., M RCPL Assistant Physician to the East Sussex and ..."
3. The life of Richard Cobden by John Morley (1882)
"It is well known that by our wars with the Chinese—by paralysing the central
government and destroying its prestige with its people,—we help the rebels in ..."
4. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"To an appeal against the bondage of a correspondence of such unbroken solemnity
I would receive —with what a paralysing promptitude! ..."
5. The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of by Francis Turner Palgrave (1907)
"... It acts by paralysing the nerves of motion, whilst those of sensation are left
unimpaired. Readers should remember that this poem forms in truth a ..."
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