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paralytic [ˌpærəˈlɪtɪk] adj 1. (Medicine / Pathology) of, relating to, or of the nature of paralysis 2. (Medicine / Pathology) afflicted with or subject to paralysis 3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) Brit informal very drunk n
(Medicine / Pathology) a person afflicted with paralysis paralytically adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
paralytic adjective 1. paralysing, disabling, crippling, incapacitating, immobilized Scientists have managed to reverse paralytic diseases in laboratory animals. 2. (Brit. informal) drunk, pissed (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), intoxicated, wasted (slang), canned (slang), flying (slang), bombed (slang), stoned (slang), smashed (slang), hammered (slang), steaming (slang), wrecked (slang), out of it (slang), plastered (slang), blitzed (slang), lit up (slang), stewed (slang), sloshed (slang), legless (informal), tired and emotional (euphemistic), steamboats (Scot. slang), off your face (slang), zonked (slang), blotto (slang), inebriated, out to it (Austral. & N.Z. slang), rat-arsed (taboo slang), Brahms and Liszt (slang), bevvied (dialect), pie-eyed (slang) By the end of the evening, we were all totally paralytic. Translations paralytic [ˌpærəˈlɪtɪk] A. ADJ 1. (Med) → paralítico 2. (Brit) (= drunk) → como una cuba B. N → paralítico/a m/f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Lord Albemarle, an elderly paralytic gentleman, was now the only advocate of Phileas Fogg left. Certain machinery in the body of the nun on the leads over the door was cleaned up and put in motion, so that the figure shook its head paralytically all day long, to the great admiration of a drunken, but very Protestant, barber over the way, who looked upon the said paralytic motion as typical of the degrading effect wrought upon the human mind by the ceremonies of the Romish Church and discoursed upon that theme with great eloquence and morality. He glanced, as he spoke, at his shabby clothes and paralytic limb, and slightly shook his head. |
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