paralyzed adj 1: affected with paralysis [syn: paralytic, paralyzed]

Paralyze \Par"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paralyzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Paralyzing.] [F. paralyser. See Paralysis.] 1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.

81 Moby Thesaurus words for "paralyzed": aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, blind, blind drunk, blotto, contemplative, cowed, crippled, deadly pale, disabled, disarmed, disqualified, do-nothing, dormant, frozen, gray with fear, hamstrung, helpless, hog-tied, horrified, horror-struck, idle, immobile, inactive, incapacitated, inert, intimidated, invalidated, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, meditative, motionless, neuter, neutral, out, out cold, overcome, pale as death, pallid, paralytic, passed out, passive, petrified, procrastinating, prostrate, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, scared stiff, scared to death, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, stiff, stoned, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, under the table, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vegetable, vegetative

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