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paralysing

paralysing

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

paralysing (comparative more paralysing, superlative most paralysing)

  1. Alternative spelling of paralyzing
    • 2013 June 8, Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

Verb

paralysing

  1. present participle of paralyse