cripple, disrupt, debilitate, devastate, overwhelm, derail, threaten, destroy, decimate, destabilize, incapacitate, depress, starve, hinder, stymie, enfeeble, undermine, suffocate, endanger, disorganize, deprive, engulf, imperil, hamper, provoke, impede, unsettle, weaken, terrify, scuttle, kill, inhibit, prolong, terrorize, frustrate, demoralize, immobilize, choke, disorganise, thwart, disturb, aggravate, affect, embitter, derange, obstruct, stifle, frighten, hobble, impair, embarrass, sabotage, perturb, inflict, interrupt, ruin, eviscerate, complicate, ravage, strangle, forestall, deplete, annihilate, denude, asphyxiate, exacerbate, constrict, protract, defang, scupper, interfere, unblock, induce, impoverish, obliterate, intimidate, intensify, strangulate, deafen, unleash, smother, stultify, reawaken, rouse, infect, marginalize, overtax, decapitate, overpower, anesthetize, galvanize, metastasise, constrain, clog, convulse, avert, jeopardizes, ensnare, disorient, stupefy, radicalize, emasculate

palsy

deactivate, inactivate

paralyse