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Definition: Paralyzed |
ParalyzedAdjective1. Affected or subject to with paralysis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "paralyzed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonym: ParalyzedSynonym: paralytic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impotence | Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Paralyzed |
| English words defined with "paralyzed": conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize ♦ digger wasp ♦ hemiplegic ♦ Lasso cell ♦ mason wasp, mud dauber ♦ numb ♦ paralyse, Paralyzation, paralyze, paraplegic, petrified ♦ quadriplegic ♦ virtually. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "paralyzed": Accessory Nerve Diseases ♦ Bacillus thuringiensis, Bt ♦ Gunpowder. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "paralyzed": Paralyze. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, a landlord's dream: a paralyzed tenant with no tongue. (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) What's the matter, are you paralyzed from the neck up, or are you hurt? (Romancing the Stone; writing credit: Diane Thomas) Wait, hold the phone, you took me away from a Swedish girly-girl and her paralyzed but trusting cousin for this? (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) I would, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) A person can't go paralyzed by smelling cabbage. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Lyrics | You're paralyzed ("Thriller"; performing artist: Michael Jackson) It was sweet like lead paint is sweet but the after effects left me paralyzed ("Cyclops Rock"; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
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Denis Leary | Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Functional neuromuscular stimulation may help activate some paralyzed muscles. (references) | |
Surgery involves adding bulk to the paralyzed vocal cord or changing its position. (references) | ||
For example, a stroke in the right hemisphere of the brain can leave the left arm and leg paralyzed. (references) | ||
Children | Bangladesh | The Center for Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed, a privately funded facility, provides both in-patient and out-patient medical services including physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, counseling, and telemedicine for both children and adults with various physical disabilities. (references) |
Economic History | Romania | This practically paralyzed whole segments of the economy. (references) |
Moldova | However, temporary power outages due to high debts have recently paralyzed public transport in Chisinau. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | Their removal had deprived the court of a quorum to rule on constitutional issues and paralyzed the court. (references) |
Venezuela | According to indigenous activists in Amazonas state, on April 17, a member of the Bare indigenous people was left paralyzed when a member of the National Guard shot him without provocation. (references) | |
Brazil | He later was released, badly beaten and partly paralyzed, and died after 15 days in the hospital. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nigeria | After announcing a fifty- percent increase in the price of fuel, President Obasanjo backtracked in June 2000 when a "stay-at-home" strike by the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) paralyzed Nigeria for five days. (references) |
Indonesia | However, it too has been paralyzed by the constitutional dispute with the President and as of August 2001, had an enormous back-log of unpassed legislation, including a Special Autonomy Bill for Papua/Irian Jaya and bills addressing necessary economic and financial reforms. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Colombia | The strike paralyzed the capital for several days before the mayor and transportation unions negotiated a solution. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Paralyzed in a plane crash, he still believed nothing is impossible. |
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| "Paralyzed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Paralyzed" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "paralyzed": be paralyzed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paralyzed | 27 |
paralyzed veteran | 13 |
paralyzed photo woman | 8 |
dog paralyzed | 6 |
paralyzed vocal cords | 5 |
diaper paralyzed | 5 |
diaphragm paralyzed | 4 |
grave michael paralyzed | 3 |
down from neck paralyzed | 2 |
paralyzed vet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paralyzed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مشلول (disabled, numb, palsied, paralysed, paralytic), عاجز (decrepit, disabled, effete, feckless, helpless, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inert, infirm, invalid, paralysed, poor, powerless, unable). (various references) | |
Chinese | 麻痹 (Palsies, Palsy, Paralyse, Paralysis, Paralytic, Paralytical, Paralyze, Paralyzing), 癱 . (various references) | |
Czech | paralyzovaný, bezvládný. (various references) | |
Finnish | lamaantua (become paralyzed, grow dull, slacken). (various references) | |
French | paralysai, paralysés, paralysée, paralysèrent. (various references) | |
German | gelähmt (crippled, lame, lamed, palsied, paralysed, paralytic). (various references) | |
Indonesian | capik (lame). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腰が抜ける (to be paralyzed, to be unable to stand up), 半身不随 (paralyzed on one side). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | は"し"ふずい (paralyzed on one side). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aralyzedpay.(various references) | |
Romanian | cotonog (hobbling, lame, paralysed). (various references) | |
Russian | парализовать парализованный. (various references) | |
Spanish | paralizado (depressed, palsied, paralysed). (various references) | |
Swedish | lam (crippled, lame, paralysed). (various references) | |
Turkish | kötürüm (cripple, crippled). (various references) | |
Ukranian | паралізований (palsied, paralysed, paralytic, petrified). (various references) | |
Welsh | diffrwyth (barren, numb). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | paralytici, paralytico, paralyticos, paralyticum, paralyticus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Paralyzed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: panalyze, paralayzed, paralise, paralize, paralized, parallize, parallized, paralysed, parayze, parylyzed, pearlized, pyrolized, pyrolysed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "paralyzed" (pronounced pe"rulī'zd) |
| 7 | -e" r u l ī' z d | sterilized. |
| 6 | -r u l ī' z d | centralized, decentralized, demoralized, hydrolyzed, neutralized. |
| 5 | -u l ī' z d | analyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, criminalized, crystallized, demobilized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, normalized, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unrealized, utilized, vandalized, visualized. |
| 4 | -l ī' z d | creolized, realized, stylized. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-l-p-r-y-z" | |
-1 letter: paralyze, parlayed. | |
-2 letters: already, pedlary. | |
-3 letters: dearly, drapey, earlap, parade, parlay, parled, parley, pearly, pedlar, played, player, prayed, replay. | |
-4 letters: alary, alder, apery, areal, deary, delay, deray, drape, early, lader, lardy, layed, layer, lazar, lazed, leady, leary, lyard, padle, padre, palea, paled, paler, parae, pardy, pared, parle, payed, payer, pearl, pedal, perdy, playa, plaza, plead, plyer, raped, rayed, razed, ready, redly, relay, repay, reply. | |
-5 letters: adze, aery, alae, alar, aped, aper, area, aryl, dale, dare, daze, deal, dear, dray, dyer, earl, eyra, lade, lady, lard, laze, lazy, lead, leap, lear, lyre, pale, paly, para, pard, pare, peal, pear, play, plea, pled, pray, prey, prez, pyre, rale, rape, raya, raze, read, real, reap, rely, yald, yard, yare, year, yeld, yelp, zeal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 61 6C 79 7A 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .- .-.. -.--. --.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01101100 01111001 01111010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a l y z e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 006C 0079 007A 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506784677891927170 |
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