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paralysis
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  • It was a little boy, his face paralyzed with fear.   (source)
    paralyzed = frozen (unable to move)
  • I never had anything wrong with my heel except the time the sting ray stung it when I stepped on him when swimming and paralyzed the lower leg and made the unbearable pain.   (source)
    paralyzed = made incapable of movement
  • The ice ball exploded, spraying his entire body with freezing, paralyzing streams of water, weighing down his arms, deadening his legs, squeezing his heart.   (source)
    paralyzing = making unable to move
  • It was like I was paralyzed and couldn't turn away;   (source)
    paralyzed = loss of the ability to move the body
  • On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralyzed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.   (source)
    paralyzed = made unable to move
  • The pieces of skin on each side of his neck and the half of his forehead seemed to tingle as if they had been paralyzed and now were getting a fresh supply of blood.   (source)
    paralyzed = lost the ability to move
  • I felt free and clean, as when you suddenly see that, after being paralyzed by ignorance or indecision, you can act.   (source)
    paralyzed = inability to act
  • But Lewis, his hand about to push the swinging doors open, hesitates, as though struck by a sudden paralysis of the will,   (source)
    paralysis = loss of the ability to move
  • That bite paralyzed Karait,   (source)
    paralyzed = removed the ability to move the body
  • I stood silently, paralyzed by dread but also by pity.†   (source)
  • A smile appeared to have paralyzed her lips.†   (source)
  • He watched paralyzed with fear as they almost touched the water.†   (source)
  • I felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • "They tell me I'm paralyzed from the waist down."†   (source)
  • Once, the plane was flung around the sky for ten minutes, leaving the temporary copilot so paralyzed with fear that Phil had to call Louie to take his place.†   (source)
  • The Slytherin team were paralyzed with laughter.†   (source)
  • Angela stood between her determined mother and her distraught partner, paralyzed by the burden of choice.†   (source)
  • I lay paralyzed with fear.†   (source)
  • She would be transfixed, she would be paralyzed — with shock, or outrage, or shame.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Edgar stood paralyzed.†   (source)
  • In May the first group of army volunteers left the barracks for Fort Douglas, and a four-year-old girl in Block 31 was stricken with infantile paralysis.†   (source)
  • All religions are tools concocted by the ruling class to paralyze the spirit of the people!†   (source)
  • All of New England was paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Lale stands paralyzed, watching until the last person has been loaded onto the trucks.†   (source)
  • He was stirred from his paralysis by Karl handing him a damp cloth for his shoes.†   (source)
  • In 2002, she fell down a flight of stairs and was paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I was paralyzed for a second, unsure of what to do.†   (source)
  • I stood rooted to the spot, paralyzed, in thrall to the action before my eyes.†   (source)
  • In a few short weeks the city was transformed into a living nightmare, with the sick dying, the healthy paralyzed with fear, and the doctors helpless.†   (source)
  • "Ma … Mom … Mom …" she heaved, almost rhythmically, her body frozen in the paralysis of crying children.†   (source)
  • He realized he was standing at a dead stop on the stairs, paralyzed by sudden revelation.†   (source)
  • Lucy was half-paralyzed, and I tugged her down to keep us together.†   (source)
  • But when the nearly all-white jury pronounced him guilty, after fifteen months of waiting for vindication, he was shocked, paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I stare up at him, paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Thomas sat and stared, paralyzed by fear.†   (source)
  • My brain isn't paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Then came silence and calm, as if the impact had paralyzed the sky.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed, Sticky couldn't even manage to nod.†   (source)
  • He was paralyzed from the waist down.†   (source)
  • I sat paralyzed a second.†   (source)
  • You start seeing things from his point of view again, and you're just paralyzed."†   (source)
  • We all arrived at the junction at the same time, and upon seeing each other, we became paralyzed with fear.†   (source)
  • They stood paralyzed by their anger; but the major stepped smartly forward to greet Owen; the chauffeur opened the tailgate of the long, silver-gray hearse; and the mortician became the unctuous delegate of death—the busybody it was his nature to be.†   (source)
  • He's paralyzed, a mouse in front of the yawning maw of a python.†   (source)
  • I just stared back at her, paralyzed with fear, while the scene rolled on.†   (source)
  • But I'd become paralyzed sometimes; I could not move any part of my body, not even my fingers.†   (source)
  • Fear didn't paralyze Cassie Sullivan, like it did some humans.†   (source)
  • Leper Lepellier would go down paralyzed with panic on any sinking troopship before making such a jump.†   (source)
  • They demanded that Mom and Dad open anything that was locked, while we children sat on our beds, staring in paralyzed fascination.†   (source)
  • For the living, the end of a Stuka attack was the paralysis of shock, of repeated shocks.†   (source)
  • Like I'm paralyzed and my head is empty and all there is in the world is that big hand and this cool breath like the wind.†   (source)
  • The guard stared at Hatter, paralyzed, unsure what to do.†   (source)
  • And I became paralyzed, too scared to move in any direction.†   (source)
  • Like I'm paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Aria clamped her mouth shut, paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I hear a crackling sound and I feel paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I was paralyzed with fear.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your mouth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.†   (source)
  • Almost paralyzed with dread, Kit turned slowly to face a new accuser.†   (source)
  • There was a risk that his right leg might be permanently paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I'm paralyzed.†   (source)
  • She tried to remember what kind of animals paralyzed their prey before they ate them….†   (source)
  • I'm thrown backward to the ground, body useless, paralyzed, eyes frozen wide, as feathery bits of matter rain down on me.†   (source)
  • Not scared so much as paralyzed; hung up there immovable on the top of a diminishing, moving mountain.†   (source)
  • At the last, the two of them were laughing so loudly they were almost paralyzed by their own silliness.†   (source)
  • "The goat is paralyzed," he said.†   (source)
  • The polio had left him partially paralyzed in his neck and arms, with nerve damage that caused constant pain.†   (source)
  • The wall was so paralyzingly vast and sheer that its top, bottom and sides passed away beyond the reach of sight.†   (source)
  • He leans in excruciatingly slowly until his lips just barely reach mine, and the anticipation of them alone is enough to paralyze me.†   (source)
  • They watched, paralyzed, as the talking toilets came nearer and nearer.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed with embarrassment, determined not to start crying, I found myself staring hard at the forlorn spot by the stove where once upon a time Cosmo's basket had stood.†   (source)
  • Otherwise the procedure won't work correctly: People end up with brain damage, partial paralysis, blindness, or worse.†   (source)
  • Now, even if the blood loss didn't get him, paralysis would.†   (source)
  • It broke Jack's paralysis and they rushed up the stairs together to where he stood.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed by her beauty, I hovered over her.†   (source)
  • "...Pelzer, shall become a ward of the court and remain so until his 18th birthday. This case is closed!" the judge quickly concluded, as he slammed his gavel on a piece of wood.
    I felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Part of the mute paralysis of viscosity comes from knowing every detail of what's ahead and having to wait for its arrival.†   (source)
  • For an instant I stood paralyzed.†   (source)
  • His hand was numb, his fingers paralyzed.†   (source)
  • It paralyzed her left side and left her in overall poor health.†   (source)
  • Forgive me, I wonder if I have paralyzed you?†   (source)
  • A pain so sharp that it paralyzes me.†   (source)
  • "If he's paralyzed from the neck down, he can't go to the prom, either," I muttered, refining my plan.†   (source)
  • The vast quantity of things he didn't know paralyzed his mind.†   (source)
  • He raved at us because our times over the O-course were down, which was mostly due to the fact that we were paralyzed with tiredness before we got there.†   (source)
  • A sudden heart attack, freak paralysis ….†   (source)
  • The assassin could not swallow, he was completely paralyzed.†   (source)
  • He's had a stroke, not his first, and it has left him paralyzed.†   (source)
  • And when she felt this paralysis, caught between entirely too many possibilities and unknowns, there was only one place she felt right.†   (source)
  • His father stood there like a statue in the park, or as if stricken by some terrible disease that had paralyzed him.†   (source)
  • Because of the Thirty-Mile Woman Sixo was the only one not paralyzed by yearning for Sethe.†   (source)
  • The paralysis seemed to affect her hands first, traveling from them along her arms and then down into her legs.†   (source)
  • I felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Da5id's paralyzed face has taken on a bluish tinge as it reflects light coming out of the scroll.†   (source)
  • But now that Adam is here, I'm paralyzed.†   (source)
  • But I was paralyzed, so I developed this pretty credible comedy act—I'm the I-Don'tCare-Kid—which is what I assume most other kids do.†   (source)
  • That's why, when she tries to rewrite history, she gets so paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't they paralyze us?†   (source)
  • I doubt if he himself has any idea what it's like to be so paralyzed by fear that you feel small and insignificant.†   (source)
  • So there was no money, and he seemed paralyzed in his efforts to make anything for Leslie.†   (source)
  • He was paralyzed and unable to work.†   (source)
  • She watched him walk to the door as if paralyzed; she couldn't move to hold him back, much as she wanted to.†   (source)
  • Mack felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • For a moment, I was blinded by sunlight slanting off the water, white, and paralyzed by my fear, which felt white, too.†   (source)
  • Then would follow delirium, paralysis, coma, and death.†   (source)
  • But then the same irresistible power that had paralyzed him obliged him to hurry after her when she turned the corner of the Cathedral and was lost in the deafening noise of the market's rough cobblestones.†   (source)
  • Today had to be her eighteenth birthday, and the only present waiting for Clarke was a syringe that would paralyze her muscles until her heart stopped beating.†   (source)
  • He felt pain there, saw a dart protruding from the sleeve, sensed paralysis spreading from it up his arm.†   (source)
  • He would certainly be comatose and likely paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Neither did he, but on long walks through the streets of town he thought about it and concluded she was evidently stopped with the same kind of blockage that had paralyzed him on his first day of teaching.†   (source)
  • There were no words for what he had to say and his tongue felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • But the person in the mirror was paralyzed and too stupid to do a thing.†   (source)
  • Dede and the woman stand paralyzed like animals caught in the beams of an oncoming car.†   (source)
  • It meant that he had seen or heard of something so ugly or frightening that he was paralyzed as a result.†   (source)
  • Farmer wrote that "paralysis" and "lassitude" afflicted almost all the medical personnel who stayed on.†   (source)
  • She was in a state of mental paralysis.†   (source)
  • I shared this particular paralysis with Mamaand Papa, but not with my older brothers and sisters.†   (source)
  • Fezzik screamed, and he was, quite literally, as he stood halfway down the dark steps, paralyzed with fear, and behind him now, doing his best to fight the darkness, came Inigo, and he had never heard that tone before, not from Fezzik, and Inigo didn't want bats in his hair either, but it wasn't worth that kind of fright, so he started to say "What's so terrible about king bats" but "What" was all he had time for before Fezzik cried, "Rabies!†   (source)
  • Emma Alexis-who was one of the cool, beautiful girls-was now paralyzed from the waist down, and she rolled her wheelchair up right beside Justin.†   (source)
  • I spent several hours in the bedroom with Mahtob, crying, fighting off nausea, wavering between anger and paralysis.†   (source)
  • He was terribly weary—he had worked in the bookstore all day and then come downtown to do a moving job—but this was not the reason for his paralysis.†   (source)
  • Every glass threw javelins of light which invisibly pierced, sank deep, found heart, soul, lungs, to frost the veins, cut nerves, send Will to ruin, paralyze and then kick-football heart.†   (source)
  • He said that I had been outmaneuvered and paralyzed by the government's actions, and now in desperation I was resorting to revolutionary language.†   (source)
  • I worried that I'd start begging, maybe even drop to the ground, paralyzed with fear,†   (source)
  • His paralysis is so bad I'm not sure he could crawl out even if he wanted to, but he's so terrified of being caught that he doesn't try.†   (source)
  • My mouth felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I force myself to obey, instantly paralyzed as I meet her gaze.†   (source)
  • When you take one of those red pills you don't just go to sleep; you're paralyzed with sleep, and all night long you can't wake, no matter what goes on around you.†   (source)
  • You may have a hemispherical stroke, in which one whole side of the body is paralyzed, which is invariably fatal in a case of Ebola.†   (source)
  • She sat still for several minutes, paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Here there was a delay, for Fiver—surrounded on all sides by the quiet summer evening—became helpless and almost paralyzed with fear.†   (source)
  • By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague.†   (source)
  • The woman who had landed me here was finally within my grasp, and I was paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Released from my paralysis, I leaned forward a little further and plucked the stone off the mirrored tray.†   (source)
  • Dish had spent most of his life on a horse and could ride in any condition short of paralysis; he had no trouble keeping his place in the group.†   (source)
  • She lay paralyzed in her bed, unable to walk.†   (source)
  • The woman had gone from emotionally paralyzed to professional in a few seconds.†   (source)
  • She'd done this while partially paralyzed on her left side.†   (source)
  • Woke up and thought my face was paralyzed.†   (source)
  • I am paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Chessy Jenks screamed, stood there in a paralyzed state.†   (source)
  • The result was that within minutes I was weak to paralysis.†   (source)
  • When he saw the lady, he became paralyzed with confusion and surprise, and by the time he was able to react the only thing he could think of was to walk toward her with a twisted smile, crossing the entire room and extending his hand.†   (source)
  • For an instant he was paralyzed with a sensation of madness.†   (source)
  • We three girls were nearly paralyzed from our physical torment, yet our trial had barely begun.†   (source)
  • My legs were paralyzed; I couldn't move.†   (source)
  • That woman paralyzes him, and he held his breath as it rang once, then twice.†   (source)
  • I was relieved to find my vocal cords weren't in a state of paralysis.†   (source)
  • I felt paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Now I'm paralyzed.†   (source)
  • But more than that he felt fear, and an astonishing paralysis of thought which only shamed him further.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the back of Tom's paralyzed mind, a voice began to re-assure him that this Shataiki could certainly mean no harm.†   (source)
  • It would be used as evidence to establish Seth Hubbard's testamentary capacity, and for a moment Jake was paralyzed with indecision.†   (source)
  • This didn't resolve the consular agent's astonished paralysis quite as effectively as Seivarden perhaps had wished.†   (source)
  • I was just like a jaybird that the yellow jackets done stung 'til he's paralyzed-but still alive in his eyes and he's watchin' 'em sting his body to death.†   (source)
  • The victims of curare suffocate to death, their chest muscles and diaphragms paralyzed.†   (source)
  • It paralyzes you, all at once.†   (source)
  • He is paralyzed from the neck down.†   (source)
  • In his partial paralysis he reacted almost as if he was an onlooker, someone involved but not in the middle of the game.†   (source)
  • It had clean snapped his neck and now he was paralyzed from there on down.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed by horror, he realized he was going to die next, not from the flames that licked the maple flooring around his shoes but by his own hand, in some fashion as monstrous as a self-inflicted shotgun wound, self-evisceration, self-immolation.†   (source)
  • It squeezed through her paralyzed vocal cords and fell lifelessly at their feet.†   (source)
  • She's paralyzed by the thought of a mistake— that her competency will be questioned and someone will challenge her for—"†   (source)
  • Billy's will was paralyzed by a zap gun aimed at him from one of the portholes.†   (source)
  • The look on his face scares me as much as the paralysis.†   (source)
  • It will remove from human existence the terrible threat of sudden paralysis….†   (source)
  • My body took asylum in a mental and physical paralysis.†   (source)
  • It wasn't that she didn't want to, it was because she was paralyzed with fear.†   (source)
  • Paralyzed and silent in her bed, my daughter Paula taught me a lesson that is now my mantra: You only have what you give.†   (source)
  • I thought he would be an easy mark, being stiff, paralyzed, but of course the agony was mine.†   (source)
  • Once the dream receded—the feeling of paralysis, the suffocating closeness of it—her body relaxed, and her mom came closer.†   (source)
  • First, factional paralysis made Italy weak on the international stage, and, second, it exaggerated inconsistency and volatility in internal matters.†   (source)
  • Doodle was paralyzed, so I put him on my shoulder and carried him down the ladder, and even when we were outside in the bright sunshine, he clung to me, crying.†   (source)
  • She could feel sleep creeping over her like a paralysis.†   (source)
  • And do not be paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Boston Corbett has fired a bullet and it slices through Booth's spinal cord and paralyzes him from the neck down.†   (source)
  • Fear had all but paralyzed the goblins, and their slight hesitation had spelled doom for the first groups to encounter the savage barbarians.†   (source)
  • He had a long paralyzed moment, which he would remember until the end of his life.†   (source)
  • The hemlock that ended his life did not do so quickly or painlessly, but rather by producing a gradual paralysis of the central nervous system.†   (source)
  • He looked like poor grade of salvage—dirty clothes, filthy himself, hair unkempt, paralyzed down one side and hand twisted, one eye a film of cataract—perfect picture of old wrecks who sleep in Bottom Alley and cadge drinks and pickled eggs in cheap taprooms.†   (source)
  • Even the FBI surveillance teams were momentarily paralyzed because they were receiving no guidance from the NCTC.†   (source)
  • Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black.†   (source)
  • To be honest, I was so frightened that paralysis gripped me.†   (source)
  • A strange paralysis accompanied his thoughts; a sudden overwhelming fatigue took hold, and his heart pounded furiously, and he panted trying to walk only a few feet from the place he had tied the mare.†   (source)
  • I was too paralyzed by fear to set up the tent.†   (source)
  • But they'll hit SAC Headquarters, hoping for temporary paralysis.†   (source)
  • We waited, almost paralyzed with fright.†   (source)
  • You can call it a paralysis, but it's much subtler than that.†   (source)
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  • He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.   (source)
    paralyzing = causing inability to achieve anything
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