to affect with paralysis.

to bring to a condition of helpless stoppage, inactivity, or inability to act

The strike paralyzed communications.

verb

incite , mobilize , stimulate

verb

anesthetize , appall , arrest , astound , bemuse , benumb , bring to grinding halt , close , daunt , daze , deaden , debilitate , demolish , destroy , disable , disarm , enfeeble , freeze , halt , incapacitate , knock out , lame , make inert , make nerveless , nonplus , numb , palsy , petrify , prostrate , shut down , stop dead , stun , stupefy , transfix , weaken , cripple , immobilize , wither , gorgonize , maim , unnerve