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PALSIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palsied mean? 

PALSIED (adjective)
  The adjective PALSIED has 1 sense:

1. affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremorplay

  Familiarity information: PALSIED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PALSIED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor

Context example:

palsied hands

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)


 Context examples 


I had rather that hand withered and tongue was palsied ere I had struck or miscalled you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And as for the vague something—was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? —that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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