What does paralyzing mean?
Definitions for paralyzing
par·a·lyz·ing
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paralyzingadjective
That paralyzes.
Webster Dictionary
Paralyzing
of Paralyze
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of paralyzing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of paralyzing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of paralyzing in a Sentence
It's defeating to put another person on the ventilator, it's defeating to put another person in prone positioning or paralyzing them or watching them get more test tubes. It's defeating to watch health care providers that I care about or Joelle Craft stand at the bedside when someone dies alone. It's also defeating to watch somebody else get put in a body bag.
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.
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.
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.
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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