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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Complete or partial muscle paralysis, often accompanied by loss of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors.
  2. n. A weakening or debilitating influence.
  3. n. An enfeebled condition or debilitated state thought to result from such an influence.
  4. n. A fit of strong emotion marked by the inability to act: "Flaherty dithered in a little palsy of indignation” ( Anthony Burgess).
  5. v. To paralyze.
  6. v. To deprive of strength.
  7. v. To make helpless, as with fear.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A weakening, suspension, or abolition of muscular power or sensation; paralysis. See paralysis.
  2. Palsied.
  3. To paralyze; affect with palsy or as with palsy; deprive of action or energy.
  4. To suffer from palsy; be affected with palsy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. colloquial Chummy, friendly.
  2. n. pathology Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
  3. v. To paralyse, either completely or partially.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See paralysis.
  2. v. To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
  2. n. loss of the ability to move a body part
  3. v. affect with palsy

Etymologies

  1. From Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from the accusative form of Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (paralusis, "palsy"), from παραλύειν (paraluein, "to disable on one side"), from παρά (para, "beside") + λύειν (luein, "loosen"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English palsie, alteration of Old French paralisie, alteration of Latin paralysis; see paralysis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. paralyze
  1. paralysis
  1. disable

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  1. symptom
  1. paralyze
  1. paralyse

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  2. sclerosis
  3. epilepsy
  4. apoplexy
  1. rheumatism
  2. delirium
  3. atrophy
  4. convulsion
  1. retardation
  2. syncope
  3. spasm
  4. dystrophy
  1. paroxysm
  2. giddiness
  3. contusion
  4. chilblain
  1. diarrhea
  2. decrepitude
  3. jaundice
  4. insanity
  1. prostration
  2. suffocation
  3. ailment
  4. ischemia

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hemiplegia
  2. paraplegia
  3. hammer-palsy
  4. palsy
  1. parlesy
  2. birth palsy
  3. impalsy
  4. molybdoparesis
  1. palsical
  2. palsywort
  3. sideration
  4. anapeiratic
  1. horse-bane
  2. Parkinson's disease
  3. palsied
  4. developmental disability
  1. spastic
  2. palesie
  3. paralysis
  4. paralytic
  1. paralyze
  2. stag-evil
  3. writer's cramp

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