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paralyse, -ze, v.|ˈpærəlaɪz|
Also -ize.
[app. a. F. paralyser, found 16th c. in pa. pple. paralysé (Paré), f. paralysie: cf. analyse.]
1. trans. To affect with paralysis; to palsy.
1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 188 To paralize the opposite side of the body. 1844Ld. Brougham A. Lunel II. iii. 106 Some with their spine wounded and their limbs paralysed in consequence. 1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids v. 222 The depending right-hand antenna is almost paralysed, and is apparently functionless.
2. fig. To deprive of energy or power of action; to render powerless, helpless, inactive, or ineffective; to deaden, cripple. Also with constr.
1805London Cries 39 (T.) Or has taxation chill'd the aguish land, And paralysed Britannia's bounteous hand? 1830S. Warren Diary Physic. (ed. Tauchn.) I. 8 My professional efforts were paralysed. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii. (1878) 266 His pride paralysed his love. 1871L. W. M. Lockhart Fair to See II. xxv. 280 He saw all this, quite paralysed out of the power of surprise or wrath. 1890Congress. Rec. 19 May 4933/1 You boast about what you have done for the American farmer... What audacity! It paralyzes me. 1900Dialect Notes II. 47 Paralyze... In phrase ‘to paralyze the professor’; to make a perfect recitation.
Hence ˈparalysed, ˈparalysing ppl. adjs.; also ˈparalyser, something that paralyses.
1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. 149 Under the dominion of this paralysing fault. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 263 To brace anew the nerves of that paralysed body. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 296 Opium, aconite, lobelia, and the cardiac paralyzers. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 788 It acted..as a paralyser of the motor nerve endings.
Add:[2.] b. To bring (a place or its activities) to a standstill. Chiefly N. Amer.
1933N.Y. Times 25 Oct. 31/3 (heading) Strike paralyzes trade in Havana. 1959Ibid. 30 Jan. 1/1 The worst fog for many winters..paralyzed London and most of England and Wales tonight. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock (1971) ix. 185 Great cities are paralyzed by strikes, power failures, riots. 1984Weekend Australian 10–11 Nov. 7/1 Half-a-dozen towns and villages have been virtually paralysed since Sunday, when municipal workers went on strike.
ˈparalysed ppl. a.: (b) intoxicated; incapacitated through drink; cf. paralytic a. 3 d (slang, chiefly U.S.).
1927New Republic 9 Mar. 72/1 The following is a partial list of words denoting drunkenness now in common use in the United States..paralyzed. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. v. 108 The only time I got tight I was paralysed all the next day. 1964J. White tr. Leulliette's St. Michael & Dragon 92 About five o'clock, everyone..was ‘paralysed’, completely and utterly drunk. |