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Torpid   /tˈɔrpəd/   Listen
adjective
Torpid  adj.  
1.
Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. "Without heat all things would be torpid."
2.
Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.


noun
Torpid  n.  (Slang, Oxford University, Eng.)
1.
An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
2.
pl. The Lenten rowing races.





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"Torpid" Quotes from Famous Books



... appealing to the others in the compartment. He might get up and say: "There is a murderer in this compartment. I recognize him from the description in this paper, and I call upon you all as public-spirited citizens to see that he does not escape justice." The torpid passengers would start up, staring and looking foolish after the fashion of English people when asked to do something unusual. Would they help? There was a stout man opposite with the symptoms of a public spirit lurking in the ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... how could Westminster chuse him again To leaven the virtue of these honest men! But the Devil remained till the Break of Day Blushed upon Sleep and Lord Castlereagh:[45] 170 Then up half the house got, and Satan got up With the drowsy to snore—or the hungry to sup:— But so torpid the power of some speakers, 't is said, That they sent even him to ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron
... like—brown, pale, dull-complexioned with reflections as of bronze, and strikingly large-eyed like an Indian. I have never been able to contemplate such a countenance without inward emotion. Her physiognomy is rather torpid, but when it becomes animated it assumes a remarkably ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... began to attack Meyerbeer's work, in order to wake up Gambara, who sat sunk in the half-torpid state ...
— Gambara • Honore de Balzac
... perforce to be content with one poor, trembling handclasp! Had that trembling been a weakness or a strength? For all time since—and increasingly during the later years—secret memories of it had wonderfully quickened a life that would otherwise have tended to fall dull, torpid, stubborn. It was not that their hands had met, but that they had trembled—those two strange hands that had both repelled and coerced each other—faltering at last into that long moment ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson


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