paralyzed

“Confiteor!” said Caderousse, putting the diamond on his little finger; “I was mistaken; but those thieves of jewellers imitate so well that it is no longer worthwhile to rob a jeweller’s shop—it is another branch of industry paralyzed.”

Often as she had recited in public, she had never before faced such an audience as this, and the sight of it paralyzed her energies completely.

But I thought you told me he had become entirely paralyzed, and that all his faculties were completely destroyed?”

That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.