adj
Meaning 1
Partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
paralyzed
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adj
Meaning 2
Rendered incapable of action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We were paralyzed with fear.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of paralyze
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
affected with paralysis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: paralytic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَشْلُول (mašlūl) — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Arabic: مفلوج (maflūg) — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Catalan: paralitzat — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Dutch: verlamd — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Finnish: halvaantunut — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- French: paralysé — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Galician: paralizado — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- German: gelähmt — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Ancient Greek: παραλυτικός (paralutikós) — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Hebrew: משותק (meshuták) — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Italian: paralizzato — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Māori: mae — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Māori: pararaiha — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Occitan: paralizat — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Portuguese: paralizado — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Spanish: paralizado — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
- Ottoman Turkish: گوتورم (götürüm) — (of a person or part of the body) partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled
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