paralysis
/pəˈɹæləsəs/ noun B2- The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a living body, such as one or more limbs.
- A state of being unable to act. · The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.
Plural paralyses
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Faria sat up to receive him, avoiding all gestures in order that he might conceal from the governor the paralysis that had already half stricken him with death.
A sort of paralysis.
de Villefort spoke of it to me—a paralysis, I think.”
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