Definitions
loss of the ability to move a body part
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). By surface analysis, para- + -lysis. Doublet of palsy.
Used in a sentence
“The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.”
“Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.”
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01“Loss of movement”9 letters
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