LekhoriLekhoriThe complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
A state of being unable to act.
The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.
Borrowed from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”). By surface analysis, para- + -lysis. Doublet of palsy.
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