What is "paralysed"

Usage examples of "paralysed".

This result is analogous to that which follows from the immersion of leaves in a strong solution of one part of the carbonate to 109, or 146, or even 218 of water, for the leaves are then paralysed and no inflection ensues, though the glands are blackened, and the protoplasm in the cells of the tentacles undergoes strong aggregation.

In this latter case the tentacles seem paralysed, as likewise follows from the action of too strong solutions of certain salts, and by too great heat, whilst weaker solutions of the same salts and a more gentle heat cause movement.

This leaf had been almost completely paralysed, and was not able to recover its sensibility whilst still in the solution, which from having been made with distilled water probably contained little oxygen.

On the other hand, if glands are suddenly crushed between pincers, as was tried in six cases, the tentacles seem paralysed by so great a shock, for they neither become inflected nor exhibit any signs of aggregation.

Probably the dose was too strong and paralysed the leaves, for drops of a weaker mixture caused much inflection.

His legs didn't seem to be much help either: they were quite powerless, as if he were paralysed from the waist down.

Most of them are just paralysed: some of them are plainly terror-stricken and weeping.

I was on my feet again, Griffiths supporting me, but it was no good, the leg was paralysed, completely without power.

With a sudden dread conviction and heart-chilling finality that momentarily paralysed all reasoning I knew that Gergori was indeed not that crazy.

With my left hand -- my right hand was momentarily paralysed and quite useless -- I reached up, caught his wrist and tried to tear his arm away.

Frantically, he scrabbled for the gun under his arm, but for what may well have been the first and was certainly the last time in his life Jacques was too slow, for that moment of paralysed incredulity had been his undoing.

The climb, though not impossibly steep, was a difficult enough one and the view, remarkable though it was, engendered in her only a feeling that lay halfway between fascinated horror and paralysed terror.

Our small-scale guerrilla movements were becoming very hampered, almost paralysed: and a partisan's army's survival depends almost exclusively on mobility, flexibility and long-range reconnaissance.

Xatmec leaned frozen against the door, as if paralysed in that position.

Balthus glared almost paralysed, his brain refusing to credit what his eyes had seen.