adj
Meaning 1
Chummy, friendly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
palsy
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈpælzi/
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/ˈpɔːlzi/
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noun
Meaning 2
Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: paralysis
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Mate, chum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
Meaning 4
To paralyse, either completely or partially.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.
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noun
Meaning 5
a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: symptom
noun
Meaning 6
loss of the ability to move a body part
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: paralysis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dysfunction, disfunction
Narrower terms: akinesis, akinesia, alalia, cystoplegia, cystoparalysis, diplegia, Erb's palsy, Erb-Duchenne paralysis, monoplegia, ophthalmoplegia, paresis, paraplegia, hemiplegia, unilateral paralysis, quadriplegia
verb
Meaning 7
affect with palsy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: paralyze, paralyse
History
Etymology
From pal + -sy.
From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + λύω (lúō, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شَلَل (šalal) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Arabic: كَسَح (kasaḥ) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Bulgarian: парализа (paraliza) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Chinese Mandarin: 麻痺 /麻痹 (mábì) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Chinese Mandarin: 癱瘓 /瘫痪 (tānhuàn) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Czech: obrna — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Danish: lammelse — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Dutch: verlamming — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Faroese: lamningur — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Faroese: lammilsi — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Finnish: halvaus — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Finnish: pareesi — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- French: paralysie — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Galician: parálise — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Galician: perlesía — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- German: Lähmung — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Greek: παράλυση (parálysi) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: szélütés — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: hűdés — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: szélhűdés — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: bénulás — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: bénultság — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: paralízis — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: parézis — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: gutaütés — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Hungarian: guta — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Icelandic: lömun — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Italian: paralisi — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Macedonian: парали́за (paralíza) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Manx: çhingys neulheiltagh — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Manx: neulheiltys — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Norwegian: paralyse — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Polish: bezwład — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Polish: porażenie — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Polish: paraliż — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Romanian: paralizie — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Romanian: pareză — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Russian: парали́ч (paralíč) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Slovak: obrna — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Spanish: perlesía — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Telugu: పక్షవాతము (pakṣavātamu) — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Turkish: felç — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part
- Turkish: inme — complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part