单词 | paralysed |
释义 | paralysedparalyzedadj. 1. Affected with paralysis (literal and figurative); paralytic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > making incapable > made incapable > made powerless or helpless paralysed1763 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > suffering from lamec725 paralytica1398 palsya1500 lither1513 palsied1551 shrew-run1607 stupid1634 paralysed1763 paretic1822 palsying1834 shrew-afflicted1842 shrew-struck1850 1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. I. 317 Viewing the paralysed member, we plainly discovered the red globules dissolved. 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 212 Paralysé,..deprived of the powers of feeling and motion. In translations from the French newspapers, we have introduced the words paralyzed, and paralised, in order to keep pace with the French. 1835 A. Smith Diary 7 Jan. (1939) I. 207 He offered me no entreaties to be let go; he appeared quite paralised. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 263 To brace anew the nerves of that paralysed body. 1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xviii. 202 Johnny..held two guns to the paralysed group. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) viii. 81 If there is weakness of the pterygoid muscles of one side, the jaw will deviate to the paralysed side. 1992 Economist 9 May 47/3 It looks as though Mr Genscher..is himself bailing out of a paralysed government. 2001 Sci. News 1 Sept. 143/1 Injections of human embryonic stem cells restored some mobility to paralyzed rodents. 2. slang (chiefly U.S.). Intoxicated; incapacitated through drink. Cf. paralytic adj. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > insensibly drunk dead drunk1599 to drink (a person) dead drunk1609 paralytic1843 sodden1850 paralysed1870 speechless1881 drunk and incapable1883 dead-oh1889 rumdum1891 passed-out1927 out to it1941 trashed1966 wiped1966 1870 J. J. McCloskey & O. D. Byron Across Continent in L. Grover et al. Davy Crockett & Other Plays (1940) 90 (stage direct.) Johnnie comes out, but he is too paralyzed to do anything. 1890 C. H. Hoyt Trip to Chinatown ii, in America's Lost Plays (1941) IX. 126 By jove, I'm drunk!.. I'll just keep it up and get paralyzed. 1927 New Republic 9 Mar. 72/1 The following is a partial list of words denoting drunkenness now in common use in the United States..paralyzed. 1953 R. Chandler Long Good-bye v. 27 Sylvia dead drunk, paralyzed, spifflicated, iced to the eybrows. 1964 T. White tr. P. Leulliette St. Michael 92 About five o'clock, everyone..was ‘paralysed’, completely and utterly drunk. 1989 San Francisco Focus Oct. 86/3 There used to be a phrase in the old days, ‘Let's all go out and get paralyzed’. But I actually paralyzed myself one time when I got drunk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1763 |
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