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Adjective: paralytic  `paru'litik
  1. Relating to or of the nature of paralysis
    "paralytic symptoms"
    - paralytical
     
  2. Affected with paralysis
    - paralyzed [N. Amer], paralysed [Brit, Cdn]
     
  3. [Brit] Very drunk
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, pickled, bladdered [Brit], bombed, juiced [N. Amer], legless [Brit], stonkered [Austral, NZ], stinko, stewed, trolleyed [Brit], out of it [Brit], trashed, liquored up [N. Amer], hammered, three sheets to the wind, mullered [Brit], wasted, tanked up, bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed
Noun: paralytic  `paru'litik
  1. A person suffering from paralysis

Derived forms: paralytics

See also: drunk, ill, inebriated, intoxicated, paralysis, sick

Type of: handicapped person

Encyclopedia: Paralytic