verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stroke leaves sb paralysed (= someone can no longer move as the result of a stroke )
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Two years later she had a stroke which left her paralysed.
be paralysed with fear (= be so afraid that you cannot move )
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Bruce was paralysed with fear when he saw the snake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Paralysed Spinster Rosemarie, 52, had been paralysed down her right side since birth.
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He's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body.
■ NOUN
fear
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I was paralysed with fear at the very thought of making eye contact with them, let alone playing the teacher.
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Yet how many of us are paralysed by our fears ?
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Still deeply in love with her, he was paralysed by his fear of intimacy.
■ VERB
leave
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They'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut, which left them paralysed .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Strike action has paralysed the region's public transport system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then Frye began to scream, the sound of it paralysing everyone with fright again.
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Boris is mentally paralysed by the situation, however.
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He's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body.
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He was paralysed with the pain of the wound which pulsed in time to his heartbeat.
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Legs, eighty percent gone, left arm fifty percent paralysed, right arm, pretty well useless.
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Then they jump on to their prey, paralyse it and feed on it.
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There are botulism injections available now to paralyse the frowning lines and the smiling ones too.
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Yet in the past week or two it has sometimes had a paralysing effect.