paralyze

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: par=a=lyze

CIDE DICTIONARY

paralyze, v. t. [F. paralyser. See Paralysis.].

•  To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.  [1913 Webster]
•  To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

paralyze

KO, amaze, anesthetize, appall, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blunt, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, chloroform, close, coldcock, confound, cripple, daunt, daze, dazzle, deaden, deflate, demolish, desensitize, destroy, disable, disarm, dismay, dope, drug, dull, dumbfound, dumbfounder, enchain, enfeeble, etherize, flabbergast, freeze, gag, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, horrify, immobilize, incapacitate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, manacle, muzzle, narcotize, nonplus, numb, obtund, overwhelm, palsy, perplex, petrify, prostrate, put to sleep, scare stiff, scare to death, shock, shut down, silence, stagger, startle, strangle, strike dead, strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, stupefy, surprise, terrify, throttle, truss up, weaken

ROGET THESAURUS

paralyze

Impotence

VB be impotent, not have a leg to stand on, vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents, collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop, go by the board, go by the wayside, go up in smoke, end in smoke, render powerless, deprive of power, disable, disenable, disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands, double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of, throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote, ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns, take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel, break the neck, break the back, unhinge, unfit, put out of gear, unman, unnerve, enervate, emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix, shatter, exhaust, weaken.

Insensibility

VB be insensible, have a rhinoceros hide, show insensibility, not mind, not care, not be affected by, have no desire for, have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in, nil admirari, not care a straw for, disregard, set at naught, turn a deaf ear to, vegetate, render insensible, render callous, blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy, brutify, brutalize, chloroform, anaesthetize, put under, assify, inure, harden the heart, steel, caseharden, sear.

Physical Insensibility

VB be insensible, have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide, render insensible, anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze, put under the influence of chloroform, stupefy, stun.