palsied

[ UK /pˈɔːlzid/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor
    palsied hands
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How To Use palsied In A Sentence

  • Something in the sharpened face, too, looked as if more than eyesight had been palsied in these years of utter solitude: the brain was dulled with sluggishly gnawing over and over the few animal ideas they leave for prisoners 'souls, -- or, as probably, thoroughly imbruted by them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
  • The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865
  • I had seen this banal horror before in a much-loved grandfather, dead before his time, a palsied victim of Parkinson's.
  • And this, with the Greens' propensity for error that increased in direct proportion to their frustration with their own palsied lack of penetration, was just enough to edge the game.
  • ObjectiveTo explore the influence of the hospitalcommunityfamilybased rehabilitation on the gross motor function of cerebral palsied children.
  • Just the same, her role is the showy one - a crippled up, palsied, intimidating patient in a care home for the elderly.
  • Possibly, at least in theory, I might have struggled my way to write some of my other books, in some palsied form, if Howard were not in my lifebut I certainly could never have written this one without him. A Conversation with Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig
  • Albertson exaggerates the palsied contortions of his figures, imbuing them with a curious pathos.
  • Yes, there was a lot of chest and back scratching and thumping, and palsied flinging about of the hands and arms.
  • His voice had a tremor in it too, words passing out over palsied lips.
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