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What is the adjective for paralysis?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs paralyze and paralyse which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

paralytic
  1. Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
  2. Pertaining to paralysis.
  3. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, slang) Very drunk.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. paralysed, paralyzed, numb, disabled, immobile, incapacitated, crippled, dead, immobilised, immobilized, lame, palsied, powerless, benumbed, diplegic, paraplegic, quadriplegic, helpless, inactive, insensible, palsified, tetraplegic, paretic, monoplegic, paraparetic, hemiplegic, nerveless, unmoving, transfixed, speechless, petrified, unable to move, sick, debilitated, arthritic, neurasthenic, weak, shaky, atonic, diseased, handicapped, maimed, impaired, weakened, bedridden, infirm, sidelined, laid up, injured, wheelchair-using … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “He had continued in this state for two or three weeks, when his arms became paralytic, and he then lost the power of moving his head.”
      “Kelloway, in 1935, from his work on peripheral nerve and muscle, characterized the paralytic substance from mussels as a neurotoxin.”
      “Perhaps I reminded her of our father, drunk and paralytic on a Saturday night, reeking of sweat and booze.”
paralysing
  1. Alternative spelling of paralyzing
  2. Synonyms:
      3. paralytic, immobilising, immobilizing, incapacitating, disabling, crippling, numbing, deadening, desensitising, desensitizing, paralyzing, torpefying, anesthetic, anaesthetic, anaesthetizing, benumbing, anaesthetising, anesthetizing, shattering, shocking, traumatic, crushing, overwhelming, severe, savage, terrible, devastating, staggering, stunning, awful, cataclysmic, catastrophic, dreadful, earth-shattering, very great, debilitating, tiring, exhausting, draining, fatiguing, wearing, sapping, enervating, weakening, enervative, devitalizing, enfeebling … more
paralytical
  1. Of or pertaining to paralysis.
paralytick
  1. Obsolete form of paralytic.
paralysable
  1. (rare) Able to be paralysed.
paralysant
  1. Causing paralysis.
paralyzing
  1. That paralyzes.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. numbing, deadening, desensitising, desensitizing, paralysing, torpefying, anesthetic, anaesthetic, anaesthetizing, benumbing, anaesthetising, anesthetizing, overwhelming, intense, irresistible, overpowering, compelling, extreme, forceful, potent, powerful, strong, unbearable, uncontrollable, besetting, consuming, crushing, devastating, irrepressible, overbearing, profound, shattering, compulsive, driving, intolerable, marked, oppressive, overriding, pervasive, stifling, unutterable, dominating, irrefutable, obsessive, overmastering, profuse, suffocating, telling, weighty, very strong … more
paralyzed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of paralyze
  2. Synonyms:
      3. froze, frozen, transfixed, immobilised, immobilized, gorgonized, palsied, stopped, stunned, rendered motionless, stopped dead, rooted to the spot, stopped someone in their tracks, stopped in your tracks, paralysed, stupefied, halted, numbed, benumbed, anaesthetized, anesthetized, become rooted to the spot, stopped suddenly, become motionless, become paralysed, became rooted to the spot, stood stock still, became paralysed, gone rigid, went rigid, became motionless, incapacitated, disabled, hamstrung, hamstringed, prostrated, crippled, put out of action, debilitated, weakened, enfeebled, exhausted, sapped, tired, enervated, fatigued, drained … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Hannah was temporarily paralyzed on the right side but soon made a full recovery.”
      “I had a paralyzed arm from sleeping on it when I turned onto my side.”
      “I just stood there, paralyzed and unmoving, after hearing those dreadful words.”
paralysed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of paralyse
  2. Synonyms:
      3. debilitated, disabled, immobilised, immobilized, incapacitated, numbed, benumbed, deadened, dulled, obtunded, torpefied, made powerless, rendered powerless, froze, frozen, stunned, transfixed, petrified, halted, stupefied, anesthetized, anaesthetized, gorgonized, became horror-stricken, become horror-stricken, became horror-struck, become horror-struck, rendered motionless, stopped dead, became rooted to the spot, become rooted to the spot, crippled, stopped, arrested, deactivated, disenabled, rendered inoperative, brought to a halt, brought to a grinding halt … more
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