Definition of Paralysing

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of paralyzing) ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of paralyse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paralysing

1. paralyse [v] - See also: paralyse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralysing

paralogue
paralogues
paralogy
paralstonite
paraluteal cell
paralutein cell
paralysable
paralysant
paralysants
paralysation
paralyse
paralysed
paralyser
paralysers
paralyses
paralysing (current term)
paralysingly
paralysis
paralysis agitans
paralyssa
paralytic
paralytic abasia
paralytic dementia
paralytic ectropion
paralytic ileus
paralytic mydriasis
paralytic myoglobinuria
paralytic rabies
paralytic scoliosis
paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin carbamoylase

Literary usage of Paralysing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"... have to stand in the same sentences with Morny, and Fleury, and Maupas, and St Arnaud, formerly Le Roy. It was necessary to take measures for paralysing ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1873)
"NOTE ON THE paralysing ACTION OF ACONITE ON THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE. BY FREDERIC BAGSHAWE, MA., MD CANTAB., M RCPL Assistant Physician to the East Sussex and ..."

3. The life of Richard Cobden by John Morley (1882)
"It is well known that by our wars with the Chinese—by paralysing the central government and destroying its prestige with its people,—we help the rebels in ..."

4. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"To an appeal against the bondage of a correspondence of such unbroken solemnity I would receive —with what a paralysing promptitude! ..."

5. The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of by Francis Turner Palgrave (1907)
"... It acts by paralysing the nerves of motion, whilst those of sensation are left unimpaired. Readers should remember that this poem forms in truth a ..."

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