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Palsied

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Affected with palsy.

adj. Trembling or shaking.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Afflicted with palsy.

adj. Trembling as if afflicted with palsy.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of palsy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Paralyzed; paretic.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor

Word Usage

"As Helga considered the implications of Jake's aggressively styled hairdo and my middle sister's nubile young body traveling at speed behind the wheel of a moving automobile, her eyebrows did a kind of palsied tremor, eventually settling back into their resting place above her wrinkled gaze."

Equivalent

ill sick

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

paralyzed trembling

Verb Stem

palsy