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Meanings of paralytic in English

Portuguese
paralítico

Relating to or of the nature of paralysis.

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paralítico

Affected with paralysis.

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Examples for "paralyzed"
Examples for "paralyzed"
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Post-coup politics had paralyzed a nation once touted as a model democracy.
Reuters
2
June 5... Well, he's paralyzed now, and his future is extremely ominous.
I’m With the Band
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The knife was still locked in the fingers of the paralyzed hand.
Planet of the Damned
4
Sometimes workers would go to bed feeling fine, but wake up paralyzed.
A short history of nearly everything
5
Police operations would be paralyzed if they got involved in every one.
Blind willow, sleeping woman
Usage of paralytic in English
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Clerambault looked at the brave calm eyes of the paralytic, and said:
Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
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M. de Chateaubriand, at the beginning of 1847, was a paralytic; Mme.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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The Constable had stopped in his tracks like a man struck paralytic.
Americans All / Stories of American Life of To-Day
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The two escorts were by this time well nigh paralytic with laughter.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
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He will have a paralytic stroke, murmured the senators to one another.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
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And that reminds me that Whiskers-on-the-moon had a paralytic stroke last night.
Rilla of Ingleside
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The old gentleman was a partial paralytic, whimsical, and not especially sociable.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 1
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James sat staring at the tape like a paralytic staring at death.
The Cost
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He had suffered from a paralytic stroke, and he scarcely recognized us.
In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
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The detective's words seemed to have the effect of a paralytic shock.
Number Seventeen
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No doubt, something in the paralytic's case determined Christ's method with him.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
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He smiled, opened his mouth, and a paralytic croak issued from him.
Shadowland
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Here is a hospital-allmanner of sick; the paralytic, the fever-stricken, the consumptive.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
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Be not alarmed, reader; it was not paralytic in its nature.
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
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Twenty-eight days after transplantation, the patient developed mild abdominal pain and paralytic ileus.
Pubmed
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Neither the bearers nor the paralytic speak a word throughout the whole incident.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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Translations for paralytic
Portuguese
paralítico
Paralytic through the time
Paralytic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common