"paralysed" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that describes someone or something that is unable to move or function due to injury, illness, or emotional shock. It can also be used figuratively to describe a situation or organization that is unable to function effectively. Example: The car accident left the young man paralysed from the waist down, changing his life forever. Example: The strike has left the city's transportation system completely paralysed, causing chaos for commuters.
He was shot six times during a hijacking, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.
Abadi, a veteran of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein governments, was appointed on Monday after the country's president effectively deposed Maliki in an effort to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the government while jihadists sweep through the north of the country.
I suspect in many ways we were alike in that way: "So your wife is paralysed and you've had bloody great bits knocked off you, and you've been in hospital for two or three months, but we don't really make a fuss about it, do we?" I think we both grew up in that school where you don't complain.
One man was so paralysed with fear that he could not remember his pin number, so his attackers stamped on his arm until it broke.
Of course, it would be unfair to say that Saudi political institutions are paralysed, as they are in Lebanon – because Saudi Arabia, unlike Lebanon, doesn't have political institutions in any meaningful sense.
She was paralysed below the waist when she was accidentally shot by police seeking her son, Michael, during an early morning raid on her home.
The country was effectively paralysed all the way up until the end of 1995 – nothing seemed to work, from trains to buses to all kinds of public services.
He was filming it and I was paralysed, because I was really shocked".
A year later – close to the anniversary of their mother's death – his older brother, Ian, was paralysed after a fall in his kitchen, leaving him in need of 24-hour care.
I'd been stuck in Seoul for weeks, paralysed by the language barrier and the heat and humidity and the crowds.
Security researchers have warned that hackers could be preparing attacks on other major film studios in the wake of the Sony Pictures cyber-attack that paralysed the company's computer systems and resulted in the leak of several unreleased films.
