Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing torpor; torpifying; stupefying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to produce torpor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Inducing
torpor ; tending to causeapathy orlethargy .
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Examples
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What future prosperity of growth is in our prospect, which shall take from us all excuse of delay, and dispossess the spirit of supineness that reigns in our bosoms, of the sceptre which by its torporific touch benumbs all our faculties?
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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I can think of no better indicator of progress with respect to bank reform than to see the industry return to its stolid, torporific past.
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I can think of no better indicator of progress with respect to bank reform than to see the industry return to its stolid, torporific past.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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To ignore this is to sentence ill married individuals to torporific lives of coldness, isolation, and complete abandonment.
THE IRATE NATION 2008
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To ignore this is to sentence ill married individuals to torporific lives of coldness, isolation, and complete abandonment.
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