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torpid(dictionary)
torpid(dictionary)

torpid (iou)



torpid adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin torpidus, from torpere be sluggish: see -ID1.]
A. adjective.
Inactive, apathetic; slow, sluggish; dull. LME.
V. Woolf My powers flag; I become torpid. P. Marshall There was a torpid sun outside.
(Of a part of the body etc.) numb; (of an animal) dormant, esp. in hibernation etc. E17.
b. noun. In pl. Annual boat races between Oxford college eights, now held in the spring term. Also (sing.), a crew or boat taking part in such a race. E20.
tor'pidity noun the condition or quality of being torpid; torpor: E17.
torpidly adverb E19.
torpidness noun L17.