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paralyze

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Main Entry: paralyze
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: immobilize

Synonyms:

anesthetize, appall, arrest, astound, bemuse, benumb, bring to grinding halt, close, daunt, daze, deaden, debilitate, demolish, destroy, disable, disarm, enfeeble, freeze, halt, incapacitate, knock out, lame, make inert, make nerveless, nonplus, numb, palsy, petrify, prostrate, shut down, stop dead, stun, stupefy, transfix, weaken

Antonyms:

incite, mobilize, stimulate
Main Entry: bemuse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: confuse

Synonyms:

addle, amaze, bewilder, daydream, daze, gather wool, moon, muddle, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, pipe dream, puzzle, stun, stupefy
Notes: the first meaning of amuse was 'to divert the attention of in order to mislead,' 'delude, deceive' and now means 'entertain, make smile or laugh'; bemuse means 'confuse, bewilder, puzzle'

Antonyms:

clear up, enlighten, explain, illuminate, tell
Main Entry: cripple
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable; make lame

Synonyms:

attenuate, blunt, debilitate, disarm, dislimb, dismember, enfeeble, hamstring, hurt, immobilize, incapacitate, injure, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, palsy, paralyze, prostrate, sap, sideline, stifle, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken

Antonyms:

aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support
Main Entry: daze
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: confuse, shock

Synonyms:

addle, amaze, astonish, astound, befog, befuddle, benumb, bewilder, blind, blur, confound, dazzle, disorder, distract, dizzy, dumbfound, flabbergast, fuddle, mix up, muddle, mystify, numb, overpower, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, puzzle, rock, stagger, startle, stun, stupefy, surprise

Antonyms:

expect
Main Entry: deaden
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: diminish, muffle, quiet

Synonyms:

KO, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken

Antonyms:

animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen
Main Entry: disable
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: render inoperative; cripple

Synonyms:

attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck

Antonyms:

aid, assist, enable, help, improve
Main Entry: disarm
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: render defenseless

Synonyms:

conciliate, cripple, deactivate, debilitate, deescalate, demilitarize, demobilize, disable, disband, disqualify, incapacitate, invalidate, neutralize, occupy, pacify, paralyze, prostrate, skin, strip, subdue, subjugate, unarm, weaken

Antonyms:

arm
Main Entry: dismay
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disappoint, fill with consternation

Synonyms:

abash, affright, agitate, alarm, appall, bewilder, bother, chill, confound, daunt, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, disillusion, dispirit, disquiet, distress, disturb, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, flummox, fluster, foul up, frighten, get to, horrify, louse up, mess up*, muck up, mystify, nonplus, paralyze, perplex, put off, puzzle, rattle, scare, screw up, shake, snafu, take aback, terrify, terrorize, throw, throw into a tizzy, unhinge, unnerve, upset

Antonyms:

assure, encourage, make happy
Main Entry: disqualify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be unfit for; be ineligible

Synonyms:

bar, bate, debar, disable, disenable, disentitle, disfranchise, eighty-six, except, exclude, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, nix, not make the cut, paralyze, preclude, prohibit, rule out, suspend, unfit, weaken

Antonyms:

allow, be eligible, capacitate, fit, permit, qualify
Main Entry: enervate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tire, wear out

Synonyms:

debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary

Antonyms:

activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven, strengthen
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