Paralytic

//ˌpæɹəˈlɪtɪk// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Affected by paralysis; paralysed.

    "the cold, shaking, paralytic hand"

  2. 2
    Pertaining to paralysis.
  3. 3
    Very drunk. Australia, Ireland, UK, slang

    "Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again? ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics."

Adjective
  1. 1
    affected with paralysis wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or of the nature of paralysis wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone suffering from paralysis.

    "Quoth I to myself, "Haply this Shaykh is of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island." So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, "O nuncle mine, what causeth thee to sit here?" He shook his head and moaned and signed to me with his hand as who should say, "Take me on thy shoulders and carry me to the other side of the well-channel." And quoth I in my mind, "I will deal kindly with him and do what he desireth; it may be I shall win me a reward in Heaven for he may be a paralytic.""

  2. 2
    a person suffering from paralysis wordnet
  3. 3
    A drug that produces paralysis.

    "For example, use of paralytics in morbidly obese patients or those with spinal instability can precipitate complete upper airway obstruction."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).

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