paralysis

UK /pəˈɹæləsəs/ US /pəˈɹæləsəs/
noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.

2

A state of being unable to act.

The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.

Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

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