- present participle of paralyze.
paralyzing
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India is also too big and decentralized for any group to oust the government simply by paralyzing the national capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Paz is facing paralyzing country-wide protests and calls for his resignation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
It’s a paralyzing realization, she argued, being confronted with “the limits of our body and perspectives — the limits of our very lives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
The siblings begin to awaken to the possibility of their liberation, from both the Communist regime and the paralyzing taboos of their aristocratic upbringing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
In the Bronx, the idea of life’s impermanence underlined everything for kids my age—it drove some of us to a paralyzing apathy, stopped us from even thinking too far into the future.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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