paralysing
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- paralyzing (North American)
Adjective edit
paralysing (comparative more paralysing, superlative most paralysing)
- (British spelling) 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.
- 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
- Also in 1955 came the paralysing two-week ASLEF pay strike, which did even more to end the love affair between the railways and its regular customers.
Verb edit
paralysing
- present participle and gerund of paralyse