English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "verlam" is om te veroorsaak dat iemand of iets nie kan beweeg of normaal optree nie, dikwels as gevolg van 'n fisiese of emosionele besering of trauma. Dit kan ook beteken om te immobiliseer of ondoeltreffend te maak, soos in die geval van 'n organisasie of stelsel.

Synonyms

  1. paralyse

Sentence Examples

  1. I had hoped to find one of the scientists, and force them to undo whatever they had done to paralyze the fae downstairs.
  2. This spectacle seemed to paralyze them, overcome them with a fatal fascination.
  3. You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.
  4. Their number, I say, would have prevented the bewildering and unreasoning terror which I have imagined to paralyze the single man.
  5. It will paralyze anyone who breathes it in, kill anyone who is injected with it.
  6. The mission of the State Protectorate Division is to seek out signs of factionalism and to fragment, disorganize, isolate, and paralyze the hostile and negative forces that create it and flow from it.
  7. The wild disorder of the room the corpse thrust, with the head downward, up the chimney the frightful mutilation of the body of the old lady these considerations, with those just mentioned, and others which I need not mention, have sufficed to paralyze the powers, by putting completely at fault the boasted acumen, of the government agents.