Synonyms for paralyzing
par·a·lyz·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "paralyzing":

   paralysing

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1. Lucy Watmough:

   It's so suffocating and overwhelming, and you want to get through it the best way you can, but the culture of fear is just paralyzing, and it's that shame and stigma that's just so ingrained in Irish society.

2. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez:

   I am grateful to President Biden for the honor of nominating me, and I wish this administration well as it strives to overcome the paralyzing political gridlock that threatens far more than our nation's border, frankly, the dysfunction threatens America's heart and soul.

3. Hjalmar Schact:

   We worked and governed with incredible elan. We really ruled. For the bureaucrats of the Ministry the contrast to the Weimar Republic was stark. Party chatter in the Reichstag was no longer heard. The language of the bureaucracy was rid of the paralyzing formula: technically right but politically impossible.

4. Delores Goodwin Kelley:

   Barbara Mikulski’s such a purist about who Barbara Mikulski will talk to and work with that it’s almost paralyzing.

5. John Herschel Glenn, Jr.:

   Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.