pal·sied

(pôl′zēd)

adj.

1. Affected with palsy.

2. Trembling or shaking.

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Adj.

palsied - affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands"

ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

Translations

palsied

[ˈpɔːlzɪd] ADJ → paralítico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

palsied

adj → gelähmt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

palsied

[ˈpɔːlzɪd] adj → paralitico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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It was a queer sort of place --a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.

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I do verily believe that my wrist, and eke my arm, are palsied by the jar of the blow that this stranger struck me."

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At his feet had squatted his three old wives, the oldest of them, toothless and somewhat palsied, ever presenting to his hand, at his head nod, a basket rough-woven of pandanus leaf.

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