Usually means: Rendering unable to move or act.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralyzing: Merriam-Webster
  2. paralyzing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. paralyzing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Paralyzing, paralyzing: Wordnik
  5. paralyzing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. paralyzing: Wiktionary
  7. Paralyzing, paralyzing: Dictionary.com
  8. paralyzing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Paralyzing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Paralyzing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. paralyzing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. paralyzing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paralyzing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralyzing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. paralyzing: Medical dictionary

(Note: See paralyze as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paralyzing)

▸ adjective:  That paralyzes.

Similar:
paralyse, crippling, incapacitating, retardative, enervate, prohibitory, disinhibiting, decompressive, disintegrating, dispossessive, more...

Opposite:
mobilizing, energizing, stimulating, invigorating, activating

Types:
tetanus, polio, cholera, diphtheria, rabies, meningitis, influenza, measles, more...

Phrases:
muscle paralyzing drugs, it may be paralyzing or irrational, more...

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Similar:
paralyse, crippling, incapacitating, retardative, enervate, prohibitory, disinhibiting, decompressive, disintegrating, dispossessive, more...

Opposite:
mobilizing, energizing, stimulating, invigorating, activating

Types:
tetanus, polio, cholera, diphtheria, rabies, meningitis, influenza, measles, more...

Phrases:
muscle paralyzing drugs, it may be paralyzing or irrational, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     icy blue,     steel gray, more...



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