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countable and uncountable, plural paralyses
(pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
A state of being unable to act. quotations examples
Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian