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DEFINITION: To be so afraid of failure that you become paralyzed -- unable to move, respond or even say a word.
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Verbrozen
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: ver-brO-zen
Sentence: After playing verbotomy so much, his exotic vocabulary became a crutch. And when his co-workers demanded that he speak in plain English, he was simply verbrozen.
Etymology: verb+frozen
Stagnitized
Created by: tealismyname
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was competely stagnitized when i saw that crazy bear!
Etymology:
Partylysis
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: part-ill-is-is
Sentence: Faced with social situations, Kevin was a nervous wreck. As soon as crossed the front door of his mate's birthday bash, he went into a rigid state of partylysis.
Etymology: party (social celebration, festivities) + paralysis (unmoving state)
Freezeframed
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: frEEze-frAmed
Sentence: The professor of David's Physics class got an inside tip that David has stolen the upcoming exam. When the professor confronted him, David just sat freezeframed, not being able to speak in his defense.
Etymology: freeze, as in motionless/ frame, as in catching one moment of time./ framed, being set up using false evidence.
Emotocomitosis
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: eemoto-comit-osis
Sentence: Wracked with emotocomitosis, he pushed out his arms to shake hands before instantly drawing it back
Etymology: emoto - connected to matters emotional; comitosis - in a frozen, lifeless state
Flatatonic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: flat a ton ik
Sentence: When Star Trek geek Jaune Yellowhead pushed his other Star Trek geek friend, Ginger Carrotop, to ask the new girl out, Ginger went into a flatatonic state. The new girl with the magenta hair, Pinky Purple, was so cute that Ginger was speechless. Apparently love is colorblind and the phasers were on stunned that day.
Etymology: Flat (having lost effervescence;completely or partially deflated) & Catatonic (a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
Whitbatter
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: with-bather
Sentence: its seems to me , he's withbatter
Etymology: WITHout BATTerys
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COMMENTS:
ha! ha! - wordmeister, 2007-02-08: 15:11:00
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Numbdumb
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: num/dum
Sentence: When he came face to face with his boss to ask for the deserved raise, he became totally numbdumb.
Etymology: numb + dumb
Statueoflimitations
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: stat-chew-ov-lim-it-ay-shuns
Sentence: he'd studied hard and he knew his stuff, but as soon as he got into the exam he became a statueoflimitations
Etymology: statue, statute of limitations
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COMMENTS:
Quite clever! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-08: 08:06:00
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Startalized
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: star ta lye sd
Sentence: colin was startalized to the point of hardly even breathing when tracy walked in to the room.
Etymology: from startled and paralyzed.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. If you have an idea that you'd like verbotomized, send it to us! Go to: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbinition.php.
Thanks! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. If you have an idea that you'd like verbotomized, send it to us! Go to: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbinition.php.
Thanks! ~ James
wordmeister - 2007-02-08: 14:08:00
Hey this room is nice.... Not too big