paralysis

noun

1 the disease can cause paralysis:

immobility, powerlessness, lack of sensation, numbness, deadness, incapacity, debilitation;

Medicine paraplegia, quadriplegia, tetraplegia, monoplegia, hemiplegia, diplegia, paresis, paraparesis;

dated palsy.

2 strike leaders claimed an almost complete paralysis of the ports:

shutdown, immobilization, stoppage, halt, standstill, stopping.