paralysing

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A form of paralyzing — That paralyzes.

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Meanings

adjectiveparalysing (comparative more paralysing, superlative most paralysing)

comparative more paralysing · superlative most paralysing · alternative paralyzing

  1. UKalternativeAlternative spelling of paralyzing.

    Also in 1955 came the paralysing two-week ASLEF pay strike, which did even more to end the love affair between the railways and its regular customers.

    2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
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    The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

    2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
verb

alternative paralyzing

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of paralyse
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Chicago

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