- 1[uncountable, countable] a loss of control of, and sometimes feeling in, part or most of the body, caused by disease or an injury to the nerves paralysis of both legs
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- 2[uncountable] a total inability to move, act, function, etc. The strike caused total paralysis in the city.
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