paralyses

Main Entry:	depression [dih-presh-uhn] Show IPA/dɪˈprɛʃən/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	economic decline
Synonyms:	bad times, bankruptcy, bear market, big trouble, bottom out, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, hard times, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, rainy days, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment
Antonyms:	recovery, surge

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Main Entry:	numbness
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	deadness
Synonyms:	anesthesia, apathy, dullness, insensibility, insensitivity, paralysis, stupefaction, stupor

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Main Entry:	inertia
Part of Speech:	noun
Related Adjectives:	blunt, dead, doless, dormant, dull, exanimous, flat, heavy, inactive, inert, latent, lifeless, listless, passive, shiftless, slack, sloomy, slow, sluggish, smoldering, tame, torpid, unexerted, uninfluential

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Concept:	Depression.
Category:	4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:	-nouns lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam. -verbs depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal). -adjectives depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive. -phrases facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
Antonyms:	elevation
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Concept:	[Insensibility to touch.] Numbness.
Category:	2. Sensation; special sensation; touch
Synonyms:	-nouns numbness (physical insensibility); anaesthesia; pins and needles. -verbs benumb. -adjectives numb; benumbed; deadened; intangible, impalpable.
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