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as in disabled
affected with paralysis
special ramps for paralyzed people in wheelchairs
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as in helpless
unable to act or achieve one's purpose
a seemingly paralyzed mayor sat by as the city's crime rate soared
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as in crippled
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
a blizzard paralyzed the city for two days
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as in frightened
to deprive of courage or confidence
the school board is paralyzed by the threat of lawsuits for just about everything
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Recent Examples of paralyzed
Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
14 June 2026
Your stomach isn’t literally paralyzed — but it’s slowed down enough to cause real problems.
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Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
13 June 2026
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
The tranquil normalcy of a residential neighborhood in the Canadian city of Montreal was shattered Monday morning after a gunman opened fire, prompting a shootout with police that killed at least two people, sent families running for cover and paralyzed the city for hours.
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Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
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McConnell has always appeared to have a somewhat unsteady gate — a childhood bout of polio left him with a partially paralyzed leg.
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Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
14 June 2026
Your stomach isn’t literally paralyzed — but it’s slowed down enough to cause real problems.
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Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
13 June 2026
Verb
Traffic is gradually returning to Bolivia’s highways after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency and deployed military and police forces to dismantle roadblocks that had paralyzed large parts of the country for more than seven weeks.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
The tranquil normalcy of a residential neighborhood in the Canadian city of Montreal was shattered Monday morning after a gunman opened fire, prompting a shootout with police that killed at least two people, sent families running for cover and paralyzed the city for hours.
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Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paralyzed
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The Dodge became disabled, and the troopers arrested the driver.
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Homeless residents, many of whom don’t have a car or are disabled, now have to travel outside of Skid Row to get stamps or mail a package.
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But when his son Naseer was born in May 2025, Ajas Ahmed had never felt so helpless.
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Over the course of a 60-yard run, Maradona danced past opponents, escaped challenges and left English defenders helpless before beating the goalkeeper with a clinical finish.
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This comes at a dire time for Venezuela, which is still deep in political and financial crisis – being led by an interim government after US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, and facing an economy crippled by years of hyperinflation.
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Aegon, who was burned and crippled in Season 2, fled with Larys Strong (Matthew Needham), leaving his cruel, one-eyed brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) to sit on the Iron Throne.
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But her outbursts frightened the children too.
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What frightened me most was what might happen to my children.
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Assuming that the account in her journal is true, her father goes out and drinks himself into a ‘paralytic’ state.
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He was injected with the three-drug mix of an anesthetic, a paralytic and potassium acetate, which stops the heart.
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Following a year of historically weak hiring in 2025, hiring rebounded this spring.
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In a weak free-agency class, centers Robert Williams III (Portland) and Mark Williams (Phoenix) are already off the market, each reportedly agreeing to return to their current teams.
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There's an apocryphal story about its creations; supposedly Kryptonite was invented so Superman's voice actor Bud Collyer could take vacations while the Man of Steel was incapacitated.
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Airbus UpNext's DragonFly project is developing AI that manages complex emergencies autonomously when the crew is incapacitated.
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The trailer teases Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular creature, who undergoes an intense transformation that leaves the townspeople terrified.
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Supporters — many of them wearing Colombia’s yellow and red colors — rushed the gates at the home stadium of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, leaving fans terrified and bloodied as security struggled to contain the rush.
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“Paralyzed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paralyzed. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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