noun.
Complete or partial muscle paralysis, often accompanied by loss of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors.
noun.
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noun.
A weakening or debilitating influence.
noun.
An enfeebled condition or debilitated state thought to result from such an influence.
noun.
A fit of strong emotion marked by the inability to act.
transitive verb.
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transitive verb.
To paralyze.
transitive verb.
To deprive of strength.
transitive verb.
To make helpless, as with fear.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A weakening, suspension, or abolition of muscular power or sensation; paralysis. See paralysis.
Palsied.
To paralyze; affect with palsy or as with palsy; deprive of action or energy.
To suffer from palsy; be affected with palsy.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
noun.
Paralysis, complete or partial. See paralysis.
noun.
paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
noun.
See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
noun.
paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called parkinsonism, or Parkinson's disease.