palsy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Complete or partial muscle paralysis, often accompanied by loss of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors.
• noun A weakening or debilitating influence.
• noun An enfeebled condition or debilitated state thought to result from such an influence.
• noun A fit of strong emotion marked by the inability to act.
• transitive verb To paralyze.
• transitive verb To deprive of strength.
• transitive verb To make helpless, as with fear.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To paralyze; affect with palsy or as with palsy; deprive of action or energy.
• To suffer from palsy; be affected with palsy.
• noun A weakening, suspension, or abolition of muscular power or sensation; paralysis. See paralysis.
• Palsied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
• noun (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See paralysis.
• noun paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
• noun See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
• noun (Med.) paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called parkinsonism, or Parkinson's disease.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun pathology Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
• verb To paralyse, either completely or partially.
• adjective colloquial Chummy, friendly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
• noun loss of the ability to move a body part
• verb affect with palsy