Usually means: Render unable to move or function.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word paralyse:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralyse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paralyse: Merriam-Webster
  3. paralyse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paralyse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paralyse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paralyse: Vocabulary.com
  7. paralyse: Wordnik
  8. paralyse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paralyse: Wiktionary
  10. Paralyse, paralyse: Dictionary.com
  11. Paralyse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. paralyse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. paralyse: Rhymezone
  14. Paralyse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. paralyse: FreeDictionary.org
  16. paralyse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. paralyse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paralyse: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See paralyses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To afflict with paralysis.
verb:  (transitive) To make unable to move; to immobilize.
verb:  (transitive) To make unable to function properly.

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