transcription, транскрипция: [ pærəlaɪz ]
( paralyses, paralysing, paralysed)
Note: in AM, use 'paralyze'
1.
If someone is paralysed by an accident or an illness, they have no feeling in their body, or in part of their body, and are unable to move.
Her married sister had been paralysed in a road accident.
...a virus which paralysed his legs.
VERB : be V-ed , V n
• para‧lysed
The disease left him with a paralysed right arm.
ADJ
2.
If a person, place, or organization is paralysed by something, they become unable to act or function properly.
For weeks now the government has been paralysed by indecision...
The strike has virtually paralysed the island.
VERB : be V-ed , V n
• para‧lysed
He was absolutely paralysed with shock.
ADJ
• para‧lys‧ing
...paralysing shyness.
ADJ : ADJ n