paraplegic
Speech parts
1. paraplegic - Noun
2. paraplegic - Adjective
3. paraplegic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)
suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
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Examples
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.
Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?
At one point, she explores the history of the “Rolling Quads,” a group of paraplegic students who moved into their own dormitory at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late nineteen-sixties.
A former actress who resents her paraplegic sister dedicates her life to torment her.
Her mother had the same sentence but was spared from deportation after the fact she was paraplegic was acknowledged by authorities.
After getting a tip that there was a paraplegic person who was miraculously able to walk again, Strange sets out to find the same cure.