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    1. "These darts will paralyze you, but they won't kill you


    2. Kelvin worried a little about it, but didn’t let it paralyze him


    3. the same chemicals they put into rat poison and one of them can paralyze the cilia


    4. Their grief seemed to paralyze his younger brothers, who turned to him more and more for the everyday decisions necessary in the operations of their household


    5. Understanding unskillful karma and its consequences should not paralyze us, but rather inspire us to carefully watch our thinking, speaking, and acting


    6. Yet, that does not paralyze us nor confine us, nor deter us from buying new cars, using other means of transportation to get to our work, nor doing our daily chores


    7. This toxin could be lethal as it would paralyze muscles so that an affected person could not breathe


    8. With them gone, his hopes of destroying the industrial capacity of this society and thus paralyze the Time Patrol were down to nearly nil


    9. “Yes, that was from two of the armed police; one shot through the base of the neck to paralyze him, so he could not pull the trigger and one through the head


    10. How could they manage such a large organized attack and paralyze whole of Zamaril

    11. However, if the hurricanes he has predicted are all category fives and fours, it will paralyze the Gulf coast states, your refineries, and major ports


    12. can paralyze a city for DAYS, the first snowfall in NYC was my wake-up call to my hate-


    13. Her saliva was poisonous, but to refrain from killing, she normally used only trace amounts to paralyze opponents


    14. It was on paralyze mode


    15. A single blockage on a major road artery can paralyze an entire freeway system


    16. The red lines near symbolize the stabbing fears that can paralyze a person once they have developed this free floating anxiety


    17. “That demon is lucky he didn’t paralyze her, hitting her neck like that


    18. Habendard’s cuddle was intense enough so that it seemed to paralyze every muscle of her mouth


    19. You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me


    20. What has he done? What’s he going to do? He’s thinking fast, but the adrenaline is catching up with him now and he can’t let it paralyze him, he’s got to think-think-think—

    21. Its bite isn’t lethal, but it’s painful and would probably paralyze a person for a good long time


    22. I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties and to clog my very soul


    23. Secondly it was impossible, because to paralyze the momentum with which Napoleon’s army was retiring, incomparably greater forces than the Russians possessed would have been required


    24. "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting a while longer


    25. From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole line


    26. Every glass threw javelins of light which invisibly pierced, sank deep, found heart, soul, lungs, to frost the veins, cut nerves, send Will to ruin, paralyze and then kick-football heart


    27. He knows a billion ways to paralyze you! Absolutely rococo with the talent to induce stupor, deep slumber, or stoppage of the heart


    28. said he could not conceive why gentlemen should wish to paralyze the strength of the nation by keeping back our naval force, and now in particular, when many of our native seamen (and he was sorry to say that from his own knowledge he spoke it) were starving in our ports


    29. And what, sir, was the conduct of the opposition in the British House of Commons, when their King and country were insulted by a foreign Minister? Did they hold back, did they attempt to paralyze the proceedings of their Government in resenting this conduct and retrieving its wounded honor and dignity? No, sir, they were Englishmen, and felt the indignity to themselves! They were patriots, and could not see their Government and nation insulted with indifference! They stepped forward, sir, and were the first to move the resolution and address


    30. It has often been stated, and, although I do not know that it is susceptible of strict proof, I believe it to be a fact, that this bank exercised its influence in support of Jay's treaty; and may it not have contributed to blunt the public sentiment, or paralyze the efforts of this nation against British aggression?

    31. The whole extent of Louisiana is to be cut up into independent States, to counterbalance and to paralyze whatever there is of influence in other quarters of the Union


    32. They paralyze the enterprise of your cities


    33. The ties of religion, of language, of blood, as it regards Great Britain, are dangerous ties to this country, with her present hostile disposition—instead of pledges of friendship they are used to paralyze the strength of the United States in relation to her aggressions


    34. But, sir, the right to carry in our own ships the produce of our own country to any quarter, not thereby violating the laws of nations, or contravening legitimate municipal regulations, is one which I never will yield; for, sir, in doing so, we paralyze the industry of our citizens; we give a fatal blow to the best interests of our country


    35. Do not paralyze the national arm


    36. What then but madness can dictate a policy tending to dry up our resources and paralyze our energies


    1. Tom screams, paralyzed, as one just stares at him, not eating him


    2. But here, the Instinct said she could always withdraw her consent, any violent move he tried to make would leave him paralyzed


    3. A stomach poison that stops insects from feeding and become paralyzed


    4. Paralyzed, Topher stood by the portal to the outside world


    5. "Do you want to leave her bleedin' paralyzed?"


    6. For example, when an infant has an accident and is paralyzed for the rest of his life, I can never swallow the tale that “this event serves an invisible but good purpose” or “his soul chose this because he needs this experience”, or “he is punished for something bad he did in his past life” and all that paranoiac piffle


    7. He was afraid he was going to be paralyzed by the native anti-violence virus they had all contracted


    8. Still she stood paralyzed to the spot, too scared even to tremble


    9. “You are paralyzed when you attempt any action that you know will cause a fellow human harm, you’ve known that since your expedition lost Alan


    10. of her own free will, unless Himla had changed the dose? If he had, his mouth and vocal cords would have become paralyzed by the Instinct when he tried to sell it to her

    11. The devastation in those words paralyzed him


    12. His slow, gentle strokes up and down her arm left her paralyzed


    13. She wasn’t screaming, she wasn’t hostile, she was just paralyzed


    14. He was paralyzed and could not answer her, it was all he could do not to fall down while he understood that all of his upbringing, the whole collection of universes that was Gordon’s Lamp, was just a figment of this girl’s imagination as she set him up for the next cycle, the move to Zhlindu


    15. He looked even more overcome than he had been by the song she played for him, paralyzed with fear, body rigid, eyes out on longer tentacles than most kedas


    16. “I can’t believe anyone could want more yaag,” Alan wondered, still paralyzed and staring at the theirops with eyes bigger than it had


    17. She was too paralyzed to just break the connection


    18. She turned to run back thru the door and recover him, she could see that he was paralyzed, hit with a dart like she had been


    19. The eyes glowing within the whirlpool paralyzed me


    20. She did not recall the impact of her paralyzed fall from Kallias, but her muddy clothes and aching head were proof enough of it

    21. He lay on the cold concrete, paralyzed


    22. paralyzed, returned to life


    23. had been hit in the spinal cord and was paralyzed; he could not


    24. McCarthy could have taken lessons from today"s college campuses, where speakers not approved (read: conservatives) by the radical minority are shouted down, and an abundance of speech codes keeps the moderate students paralyzed, as they watch student newspapers which fail to toe the party line being stolen from the newsstands and sometimes burned on the spot, with a consequent lack of response, yea, sometimes even applause, from the cowardly administrations


    25. I couldn’t move, I was paralyzed, as much by fear as by having inadequate space to move IN


    26. Cheeryup, Wyll, and Floppy were paralyzed with fear in the closet


    27. He suffered a stroke and his right side became paralyzed


    28. We swept his lines of communications, paralyzed the movements of reserves and inflicted heavy losses on troops marching to the front


    29. Paralyzed, her eyes opened to a myriad of stars while the fire of her very being trailed his caresses across her trembling body,


    30. One ear felt a small sting and immediately buckled as his back legs folded and his rear-end became paralyzed

    31. With both hands he lifted one paralyzed limb, amazed at its weight and stretched it out before him, then the other


    32. Ruby listened to the retreating footsteps and waited for a while, paralyzed within the wall


    33. And then I was shaking with it, paralyzed as that great obscene man stood before me, erect blades bobbing inches from my chest


    34. Paralyzed into statue-like immobility, she now saw as if in a dream, her love, snatch from the hands of a defender close by, a bow and an arrow, which was launched with a quickness almost beyond perception


    35. He lay there under the Rover, paralyzed and bleeding, choking on his own blood


    36. She was paralyzed with fear for him as the two closed quickly from the sides, and the leader matched Loran’s step with a larger one


    37. In a way, they were paralyzed by the fact of slavery when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution


    38. paralyzed me with a special toxin when my guard was down and took me


    39. Wynne was almost paralyzed at the mere touch of her fingertips, and a rush


    40. Her hands had a faint pink glow about them, as if they were generating the heat themselves, and instinctively I wanted to jerk away, but I was paralyzed by her touch

    41. The skinny boy and two fat boys sat on the gym floor paralyzed with fear


    42. She stood there alone, paralyzed


    43. paralyzed, staring at the monitors


    44. “He is paralyzed by his fear


    45. Without warning she felt the same fear that had paralyzed her in the wagon


    46. I was rather surprised that he still did not seem to have any feel for tactics at all and, in fact, was usually too paralyzed to suggest anything


    47. pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech


    48. “You wouldn’t call me a maggot if I wasn’t paralyzed in this chair,” Jaden says while struggling to move


    49. His body is still paralyzed and he struggles to get some control of his body


    50. The hit fish are instantly paralyzed and rotate like a pig over a fire














































    1. paralyzes their lives and their SELF


    2. in a neurosis that paralyzes desire and life itself; the other is the decision to


    3. The burden of self-creation is that when there are too many x's to evolve yourself into, the fear of not maximizing market value paralyzes one with the terror of choosing incorrectly


    4. It paralyzes the nerve centers, thus affecting the circulation of the blood


    5. This, in turn, paralyzes the muscular system, so that fear affects the entire being — body, brain and nerve, physical, mental, and muscular


    6. Realize that Fear paralyzes effort, and that


    7. Fear paralyzes Desire - it scares the life out of it


    8. You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me


    9. / 159 Millions of PC’s sent into never-ending reboot: See Declan McCullagh, “Buggy McAfee Update Whacks Windows XP PCs,” CNET, April 21, 2010; Gregg Keizer, “Flawed McAfee Update Paralyzes Corporate PCs,” Computerworld, April 21, 2010; and “McAfee delivers a false-positive detection of the W32/wecorl


    10. That she had already permitted him to make love to her he read as an additional assurance, not fully trowing that in the fields and pastures to "sigh gratis" is by no means deemed waste; love-making being here more often accepted inconsiderately and for its own sweet sake than in the carking, anxious homes of the ambitious, where a girl's craving for an establishment paralyzes her healthy thought of a passion as an end

    11. It is the kind of fog that paralyzes most drivers forcing them to pull off the road


    12. In many ways Weyland’s approach to California’s fog is an appropriate metaphor for his approach to the risk that paralyzes investors pursuing profits in a volatile market


    13. The bottomless cold paralyzes him


    14. Sometimes the stomach paralyzes the heart


    15. By arming itself more and more, it paralyzes the sources of the social and the individual welfare, and may easily be compared to a man who, to provide himself with a gun, condemns himself to anæmia, at the same time wasting all his strength for the purpose of making use of the very gun with which he is providing himself, and under the burden of which he will finally fall


    16. Anguish paralyzes our thought, and the best effort of which it is capable is to calculate—by spelling out the vague discourses of ministers, by twisting the sense of the words uttered by sovereigns, by contorting the words ascribed to diplomats and reported by the newspapers at the uncertain risk of their information—whether it is to-morrow or the day after, this year or next year, that we shall be crushed


    17. By increasing its armament it paralyzes more and more the springs of social and individual welfare, and may be compared to a man who, in order to obtain weapons, condemns himself to anæmia, thereby depriving himself of the strength to use the weapons he is accumulating, whose weight will eventually overpower him


    18. Anxiety paralyzes our thought, and the utmost we can do is to wonder, as we con the vague utterances of ministers, or construe the meaning of the words of monarchs, or turn over those ascribed to the diplomatists, retailed at random by the newspapers, never sure of their information, whether all this is to happen to-morrow or the day after, whether it is this year or next that we are all to be killed


    1. She looks like she’s stuck in one paralyzing thought, like when a squirrel freezes up in the middle of the road


    2. These are the kinds of thoughts that create paralyzing


    3. Roman’s will seemed to overtake the effects of the paralyzing agent in his


    4. As for her telepathic attacks, this time, Harple would be paralyzing her mind


    5. It was in such a moment as that, with realization paralyzing movement, their minds turned inward in search of answers and their jaws hanging slack, that Herminia found them


    6. Maggie wondered why Peter did not move, and then realized that the paralyzing eyes had taken hold of him as well


    7. Then that rush of paralyzing fear overcame


    8. paralyzing wave of anxiety that keeps me from


    9. The Primagnon could sense the rage building in the young scientist and decided to immobilize him with the chairs paralyzing power


    10. through intense emotion, where before there was the paralyzing and

    11. lifted it, turning it in her hands, paralyzing fear gripping her at the


    12. To know that detail will reveal the reason for a spider’s web and for its paralyzing sting


    13. It took me some time to recover from the paralyzing grip of terror


    14. Gradually, I became aware of a growing pain in my leg, paralyzing my entire body


    15. The paralyzing sensation that was spreading throughout my body was so overpowering that it was almost a comfort to no longer hope for anything


    16. “It is a torture I would kill to avoid,” I said with paralyzing certainty


    17. My stomach turned over, paralyzing fear jolted down my body


    18. Paralyzing terror gripped me, with no possibility for escape


    19. She completed that routine with a plank and brick breaking demonstration, attracting a concert of disbelieving exclamations when she broke in two a concrete block with her fist while letting out a paralyzing kiai scream, then smashed in succession through two thick wood planks, one with her fist and the other with her left foot


    20. She feared a return of her once paralyzing panic attacks

    21. Despite the bullets still raking their car, Janet reacted swiftly, an adrenaline surge flowing through her body and partially negating the paralyzing fear that was gripping her


    22. with a paralyzing fear


    23. paralyzing fear that seized his heart


    24. It was paralyzing – I couldn’t move at all


    25. Where such a certainty would have produced paralyzing fear in most of her fellow humans, she was filled now with awe


    26. A negative sort of way, for fear can cancel out anger—while just a spark of anger, stoked and fanned into flame, is capable of overcoming the strongest, most paralyzing of fears


    27. When any class has unequal access to the representative powers of the tax enacting State, what usually results is a polarizing and paralyzing privilege of the wealthy class paying a donation toll to the powers that be so as to not have to share with the hoi polloi through the communal resource that is tax as social redistribution, i


    28. When apathy is boredom induced – one lacks the requisite stimulation to trigger their threshold to care for – and boredom is experienced as a state of living death, then the lack of being stimulated is accompanied by a paralyzing fear of never being stimulated again


    29. “When News for profit takes sides, this is the pornographication of our paralyzing polarization


    30. In the blink of an eye Kathy went from blushing radiance to deathly white, and the expression on her face froze into one of extreme and paralyzing terror

    31. The paralyzing horror


    32. Waiting and not knowing was very difficult; it was paralyzing


    33. It is a grievous thing to love any one too much; a grievous, wasteful, paralyzing thing; a tumbling of the universe out of focus, a bringing of the whole world down to the mean level of one desire, a shutting out of wider, more beautiful feelings, a wrapping of one's self in a thick garment of selfishness, outside which all the dear, tender, modest, everyday affections and friendships, the wholesome, ordinary loves, the precious loves of use and wont, are left to shiver and grow cold


    34. “No, but you are,” I responded as I shot him right in the chest with my laser gun, paralyzing him


    35. The emotions were paralyzing my throat


    36. It is, however, with regret that the thing cannot free itself, and as the creature of pearls and many shades of white continues to inject within its victim a poison that is likely paralyzing it from the inside out, Mary feels in her chest a tremor of unease that begins at the center of her torso and branches out to her arms


    37. Rather this is a snapshot of a victim of paralyzing insecurity and self-doubt


    38. Then, in sudden paralyzing fear, she asked, “If you’re here, then who is protecting my husband?”


    39. I had stared death in the face before, but frequent exposure to it can’t completely callus one to its paralyzing force


    40. It had risen up everywhere around her in paralyzing thickness, just as her lungs gave way to the tide

    41. It had risen up everywhere around her in paralyzing thickness, just as her lungs were giving way to the tide


    42. As my vision blurred I fought back a paralyzing fear and the urge to kick out


    43. The sight stopped her in her tracks, paralyzing her


    44. had a stroke, paralyzing him and leaving him unable to communicate intelligibly


    45. Having had to encounter singlehanded during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows


    46. But such was unreasoning memory that, though he stood there openly and palpably a converted man, who was sorrowing for his past irregularities, a fear overcame her, paralyzing her movement so that she neither retreated nor advanced


    47. I pushed aside my grief and paralyzing rage and focused on what I wanted now, more than anything else in this life—to make my father proud of me, and to make certain that his sacrifice had not been in vain


    48. Again and again the piercing metallic vibrations, like charges of raw electricity, fell in paralyzing shocks from the stunned trees


    49. The blood thirst was paralyzing me


    50. The want was paralyzing me







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    Synonyms for "paralyze"

    paralyse paralyze benumb cripple disable shock disarm stun unnerve

    "paralyze" definitions

    make powerless and unable to function


    cause to be paralyzed and immobile