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paralysant

paralysant

English

Adjective

paralysant (comparative more paralysant, superlative most paralysant)

  1. Causing paralysis.

Noun

paralysant (plural paralysants)

  1. A substance which induces paralysis.
    • 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 48:
      Other mythographers say that [...] where the saliva of Cerberus fell on the ground, up sprang the witch-flower aconite – which is a poison, a paralysant and a febrifuge

French

Verb

paralysant

  1. present participle of paralyser

Adjective

paralysant m (feminine singular paralysante, masculine plural paralysants, feminine plural paralysantes)

  1. crippling
  2. paralyzing