to palsy
1
9.9
- verb
- /ˈpɔlzi/
- Specialized
:
paralizar
- "I don't know what to do," she said, something palsied in her voice.
- palsied hand
Examples
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He was being fed through a tube in his stomach; he was palsied.
Academic text (2009) -
The hotel tenants' revolutionary activities were palsied, as they were perennially waiting for the NKVD footsteps to stop before their doors.
Fiction book (1996) -
When the spirit of hospitality dies, the heart becomes palsied with selfishness.
Blog text (18) -
"My wounded hand palsied.
Fiction book (1991) -
Their ace in the hole was that North Koreans aren't especially fluent in Danish, and especially not palsied Danish.
Blog text (31) -
Brunnstrom recovery stages were used because the stages reflect underlying motor control based on clinical assessment of movement quality from flaccid (palsied) to nearly normal.
Academic text (2015) -
I felt deserted of my intellectual powers, palsied in mind, and compelled to sit in speechless expectation of the misery to which I was destined.
Academic text (2007) -
In a series of quick, furtive maneuvers that made her body look from above as if it were palsied, she extracted the folded bills from the waistband of her underwear.
Fiction book (1996) -
He had no other viable ideas: he was parched, his arm ached and was palsied now; he braced it up, planted his feet wide, and warred with panic.
Fiction book (1995) -
After the accident, the doctors were concerned that the stroke had palsied his right side.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
14
4.2
A long-term condition that limits movement and body position due to brain damage before or soon after birth
- Specialized
1
4.8
Sudden temporary weakness on one side of the face causing drooping and difficulty closing an eye
- Specialized
Weakness and loss of feeling in an arm caused by nerve injury during birth
How Paralysing
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb palsy shares its root with paralyze and the Greek part lysis, which means 'to loosen'. So to palsy someone is to make muscles 'loosen' and 'lose control', which is to cause paralysis.