paralyse
verb
[ ˈparəlʌɪz ]
• cause (a person or part of the body) to become partly or wholly incapable of movement.
• "Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke"
Similar:
disable,
immobilize,
render/make powerless,
incapacitate,
debilitate,
numb,
deaden,
benumb,
dull,
obtund,
torpefy,
incapacitated,
immobilized,
powerless,
paraplegic,
quadriplegic,
tetraplegic,
monoplegic,
hemiplegic,
paretic,
paraparetic,
palsied,
Origin:
early 19th century: from French paralyser, from paralysie ‘paralysis’.
