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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
paralyse .
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Examples
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What we are seeing is unprecedented - the Government appears to be paralysed from the neck down, and we are also seeing evidence of neurological damage as well .
Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009
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After 1815 Evans became paralysed from the waist down, but continued as a preacher.
Index of People 2009
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What we are seeing is unprecedented - the Government appears to be paralysed from the neck down, and we are also seeing evidence of neurological damage as well .
BREAKING: Top Doctors Called to Westminster Dungeekin 2009
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From this day forth Gordon is a legislative quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down and reliant on uncaring backbench carers for the most basic of his parliamentary needs.
Matthew Norman on Gordon Brown Not a sheep 2008
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From this day forth Gordon is a legislative quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down and reliant on uncaring backbench carers for the most basic of his parliamentary needs.
Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008
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I was pursuaded to try one of those things when I was paralysed from the waist down, to see if everything was paralysed.
Sex In 2050..... Newmania 2008
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A man paralysed from the neck down has been able to open e-mails, control a television and move objects with a robotic arm, simply by thinking about it.
‘Bionic Man’ Uses Brain Power to Control TV | Impact Lab 2006
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Sharon: Oh my god I'm paralysed from the waist down!
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X-rays 26-year-old man has been paralysed from the waist down.
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That’s how he meets Sammy and Molly as they arrive on train from Toronto and he basically volunteers to aid this man and be his ward, taking care of this man who is paralysed from the neck down.
GHibbs commented on the word paralysed
My adjectival use: 'He has a paralysed arm.'
August 20, 2011