adjective
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Paralysed from the neck down, Bundini could only move his eyes.
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A car crash in 1997 left him completely paralysed .
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Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke, and could not move or speak.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if they could ... Here Rosa's brain became paralysed as she tried to imagine the process of blackmail itself.
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But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state.
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For a moment, the children stood paralysed , Emmie with horror, Oliver with a fearful joy.
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For a year or more Menelik had lain in the palace, a living corpse, paralysed and speechless.
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I became paralysed , unable to go down or up.
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Not a penny: a judge rejects a paralysed woman's claim for damages.
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On suddenly realising he is dreaming, he may try to wake up only to find that his body seems paralysed .