paralyze
verb
1 paralyze
Make powerless and unable to function:
— The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation.
synonym: paralyse.
Roget 158:
be impotent
etc.
adj.;
not have a leg to stand on.
vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [Fr.],
vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [Fr.].
collapse,
faint,
swoon,
fall into a swoon,
drop;
go by the board,
go by the wayside;
go up in smoke,
end in smoke
etc.
(fail)
732.
render powerless
etc.
adj.;
deprive of power;
disable,
disenable†;
disarm,
incapacitate,
disqualify,
unfit,
invalidate,
deaden,
cramp,
tie the hands;
double up,
prostrate,
paralyze,
muzzle,
cripple,
becripple†,
maim,
lame,
hamstring,
draw the teeth of;
throttle,
strangle,
garrotte,
garrote;
ratten†,
silence,
sprain,
clip the wings of,
put hors de combat [Fr.],
spike the guns;
take the wind out of one's sails,
scotch the snake,
put a spoke in one's wheel;
break the neck,
break the back;
unhinge,
unfit;
put out of gear.
unman,
unnerve,
enervate;
emasculate,
castrate,
geld,
alter,
neuter,
sterilize,
fix.
shatter,
exhaust,
weaken
etc.
160.
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Roget 376:
be insensible
etc.
adj.;
have a thick skin,
have a rhinoceros hide.
render insensible
etc.
adj.;
anaesthetize†,
blunt,
pall,
obtund†,
benumb,
paralyze;
put under the influence of chloroform
etc.
n.;
stupefy,
stun.
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Roget 823:
be insensible
etc.
adj.;
have a rhinoceros hide;
show insensibility
etc.
n.;
not mind,
not care,
not be affected by;
have no desire for
etc.
866;
have no interest in,
feel no interest in,
take no interest in;
nil admirari [Lat.];
not care a straw for
etc.
(unimportance)
643;
disregard
etc.
(neglect)
460;
set at naught
etc.
(make light of)
483;
turn a deaf ear to
etc.
(inattention)
458;
vegetate.
render insensible,
render callous;
blunt,
obtund†,
numb,
benumb,
paralyze,
deaden,
hebetate†,
stun,
stupefy;
brutify†;
brutalize;
chloroform,
anaesthetize†,
put under;
assify†.
inure;
harden the heart;
steel,
caseharden,
sear.
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Dutch: paralyseren, verlammen
2 paralyze
Cause to be paralyzed and immobile:
— The poison paralyzed him.
— Fear paralyzed her.
synonym: paralyse.
Dutch: paralyseren, verlammen
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