paralytic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
    — the cold, shaking, paralytic hand
  2. Pertaining to paralysis.
  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.

词形变化

paralytics plural paralytick alternative,obsolete parlatic alternative,Ireland palatic alternative,Geordie pallatic alternative,Geordie more paralytic comparative most paralytic superlative paralytick alternative,obsolete parlatic alternative,Ireland palatic alternative,Geordie pallatic alternative,Geordie

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).
词源 2
Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).
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