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  1. paralyzingadjective

    That paralyzes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Paralyzing

    of Paralyze

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Paralyzing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Paralyzing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Paralyzing in a Sentence

  1. Guy Davenport:

    Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

  2. John Herschel Glenn, Jr.:

    Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

  3. Lucy Watmough:

    It's so suffocating and overwhelming, and you want to get through it the best way you can, but the culture of fear is just paralyzing, and it's that shame and stigma that's just so ingrained in Irish society.

  4. Amanda Zurawski:

    Because I wasn’t permitted to have an abortion and the trauma and the PTSD and the depression that I have dealt with in the eight months since this happened to me is paralyzing, on top of that, I am still struggling to have children.

  5. Emma Goldman:

    It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

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