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1) to affect (a person, animal) with paralysis; to make (a person, animal) helpless (paralyse)

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Meaning:
clumsy

careless, awkward in movement or construction

not agile; awkward

downtrodden

(of a person) (kept) poor and treated badly

afflicted, abused

feeble

without energy or force

not strong; ineffective

forlorn

(literary) unhappy

hopeless, inconsolable

hopeless

feeling, giving, promising, no hope of recovery, improvement etc

futile, pessimistic

impotent

not having enough strength, influence etc (to do something or prevent, act, change etc something); (of a man) incapable of sexual intercourse

disabled; unable to perform action

incompetent

without ability or talent

unskilful, unable

naked

without clothes on; without the usual covering

without covering

pigeon

one of many kinds of bird of the dove family

powerless, vulnerable

powerless

(of a person) without energy, authority or influence

weak; unable

rheumatic

relating to, causing, caused by, suffering from, rheumatism

crippled

spastic

(a person) physically disabled because of difficulty in controlling voluntary muscles

crippled

unable

not able to

not having talent, skill

unarmed

without weapons

disarmed

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