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torpor
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A state of being inactive or stuporous. 2 A state of apathy or lethargy. 3 (context biology English) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor" [syn: torpidity ] inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or energy [syn: listlessness , torpidity , torpidness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lethargy, listlessness," c.1600, from Latin torpor "numbness, sluggishness," from torpere "be numb, be inactive, be dull," from PIE root *ster- (1) "stiff, rigid, firm, strong" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic trupeti , Lithuanian tirpstu "to become rigid;" ...
Usage examples of torpor.
Sitting alone in the darkness amplified the torpor that had pervaded me, and though I sensed certain unsettling dissonances surrounding what had just taken place, I was not sufficiently alert to consider them as other than aggravations.
A feeling of weariness stopped him, a kind of torpor benumbed him for long minutes, during which he did not give a single stroke with the brush.
The torpor which had come upon him the previous evening formed a complete contrast to the blithesome vigour he now enjoyed.
But soon recalling herself to the necessities of the situation, with an effort she shook off the torpor of her memories, and began stammering a few hurried words.
They were all spent with the fatigue that comes from heaven to such misery as theirs, and they sat in a torpor in which each waited for the other to move, to speak.
And as time went on and it seemed he was going to stay out of her life permanently, her body settled into unaroused torpor, and her mind disciplined itself to forget.
The next day Ayrton awoke from his torpor, and his companions cordially manifested all the joy they felt, on seeing him again, almost safe and sound, after a hundred and four days separation.
But then a wave of torpor insinuated itself as a last vestige of the chemical washed across his forebrain, sinuous molecules urging sleep, a resumption of the comforting nothin ness that took away the fear of being cocooned like this.
Brusquely shaking off the torpor which was the legacy of her shallow, broken sleep, Rosemary got out of bed and went to the handbasin in the corner to douse herself with cold water.
The videoconference with the Pentagon seemed to confirm the torpor of the defense community.
Indolence, their wildest ire is charmed into the torpor of the bat, slumbering out the rigours of winter, in the chink of a ruined wall.
Virginia statutes in his citations even got some of the locals there recanting on their interrogatories, claim they were tricked by the fancy language where Szyrk claims his sculpture is site specific for the moral torpor and spiritual vacuity of the place the only words they got hold of were moral and spiritual, thought it was all some big tribute.
Earth turned and the air cooled and the dinosaurs settled into their nightly torpor, at their feet the dirt stirred.
The disinhibitors were already kicking in and he was slipping down into a warm, comfortable torpor.
They set forth the situation--the torpor of the Faubourgs, no one at the Society of Cabinet Makers, the doors closed nearly everywhere.