Usually means: Causing temporary or permanent immobility.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Paralytic:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralytic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paralytic: Merriam-Webster
  3. paralytic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paralytic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paralytic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paralytic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Paralytic, paralytic: Wordnik
  8. paralytic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paralytic: Wiktionary
  10. paralytic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. paralytic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. paralytic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. paralytic: Dictionary.com
  14. Paralytic (gene), Paralytic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Paralytic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. paralytic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. paralytic: Rhymezone
  18. paralytic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. paralytic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. paralytic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Paralytic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. paralytic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paralytic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralytic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. paralytic: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralytic, paralytic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. paralytic: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See paralytically as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paralytic)

▸ noun:  Someone suffering from paralysis.
▸ noun:  A drug that produces paralysis.
▸ adjective:  Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to paralysis.
▸ adjective:  (UK, Australia, Ireland, slang) Very drunk.

Similar:
paralytical, paralyzed, unfit, paralytick, paraplegic, paralysation, paretic, para, paralyzis, paraplegy, more...

Opposite:
mobile, functional, active, ambulatory

Phrases:
paralytic ileus, paralytic poliomyelitis, paralytic stroke, paralytic strabismus, paralytic scoliosis, more...

Adjectives:
general, poor, helpless, old, hopeless, aged, little, blind, single, healed, moral

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Similar:
paralytical, paralyzed, unfit, paralytick, paraplegic, paralysation, paretic, para, paralyzis, paraplegy, more...

Opposite:
mobile, functional, active, ambulatory

Phrases:
paralytic ileus, paralytic poliomyelitis, paralytic stroke, paralytic strabismus, paralytic scoliosis, paralytic rabies, paralytic bladder, paralytic secretion, paralytic dementia, paralytic syndrome, more...

Adjectives:
general, poor, helpless, old, hopeless, aged, little, blind, single, healed, moral



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