Paralysing - English meaning

verb

Deprive of physical or emotional feeling.

Usage examples:

The flood of images and alerts coming through social networks is benumbing us

verb

Make (a noise or sensation) less strong or intense.

Usage examples:

Ether was used to deaden the pain

verb

To reduce the severity or effect of something

Usage examples:

He asked for some stronger medication to deaden the pain.

verb

Make (someone) very weak and infirm.

Usage examples:

He was severely debilitated by a stomach upset

verb

To make someone or something physically weak

Usage examples:

Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him.

verb

(of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities.

Usage examples:

It's an injury that could disable somebody for life

verb

To make something or someone unable to act in the correct or usual way

Usage examples:

Thieves disabled the museum’s alarm system.

verb

To turn off a part of a computer system, or stop it from working in the normal way

Usage examples:

To disable a program or device, right-click its listing under the appropriate category and choose '…

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Usage examples:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Usage examples:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Usage examples:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

prefix

Half or part

Usage examples:

The study included 61 patients who underwent total laryngectomy with hemi- or total thyroidectomy.,…

verb

Prevent (something or someone) from moving or operating as normal.

Usage examples:

The car had been immobilized by a wheel clamp

verb

To prevent a company, country, or economy from using money or other assets

Usage examples:

Underdeveloped financial markets limit the availability of credit, immobilizing large amounts of ca…

verb

Prevent (something or someone) from moving or operating as normal.

Usage examples:

The car had been immobilized by a wheel clamp

verb

Past simple and past participle of immobilize

Usage examples:

You can immobilize the car by removing the spark plugs., the broken limb must be immobilized as soo…

verb

To stop something or someone from moving

Usage examples:

You can immobilize the car by removing the spark plugs., the broken limb must be immobilized as soo…

verb

Prevent from functioning in a normal way.

Usage examples:

He was incapacitated by a heart attack

verb

To remove someone’s ability to do something

Usage examples:

The accident incapacitated me for seven months., an incapacitating illness, the novel tells the sto…

adjective

Deprived of strength or power; debilitated.

Usage examples:

Richard was temporarily incapacitated

verb

Prevent from functioning in a normal way.

Usage examples:

He was incapacitated by a heart attack

verb

Past simple and past participle of incapacitate

Usage examples:

The accident left me incapacitated for seven months., rubber bullets are designed to incapacitate p…

adjective

(of a part of the body) deprived of the power of physical sensation.

Usage examples:

My feet were numb with cold

verb

Deprive of feeling or responsiveness.

Usage examples:

The cold had numbed her senses

verb

Dull the sensitivity of; blunt; deaden.

Usage examples:

The next step is to obtund the tissues to be operated on

adjective

Affected by or relating to paralysis of the legs and lower body.

Usage examples:

A paraplegic war veteran

noun

A person affected by paralysis of the legs and lower body.

Usage examples:

Researchers hope the treatment might enable paraplegics to walk again

noun

A person who has lost the ability to move the legs and lower part of the body, usually because of a severe injury to the spine (= bones in the back)

adjective

Without ability, influence, or power.

Usage examples:

Troops were powerless to stop last night's shooting

adjective

Without the power to do something or to prevent something from happening

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] the government seems powerless to do anything about the rising price of oil.

adjective

Affected by or relating to paralysis of all four limbs; tetraplegic.

Usage examples:

Quadriplegic patients

noun

A person affected by paralysis of all four limbs.

Usage examples:

A car accident left him a quadriplegic

adjective

Permanently unable to move or feel your arms or legs, usually because of a severe injury to the spine (= bones in the centre of the back)

adjective

Another word for quadriplegic