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Torpid
Torpid meaning
unmoving | dormant or hibernating | lazy, lethargic or apathetic
Example sentences (7)
Shields tells us that she felt dangerously dissociated during the filming of the big sex scene in “Endless Love,” the torpid teen romance she made in 1981, and watching it you can tell.
After a string of poor results and a group stage exit from the Copa América during which the US somehow looked both tempestuous and torpid, this was positive.
A torpid liver, and two or three day’s sickness, with a doctor’s bill thrown in, follows.
The economy is torpid, the government is still mucking things up for everyone and another Brexit cliff edge looms next Christmas.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (not to be confused with the torpid 2010 remake), contains all these innocent elements, alongside its dark slasher storyline about a deceased child-murderer now hunting teenagers within their dreams.
Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless".
They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crop bulges, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food.