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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Benumbed; numb; incapable of activity or sensibility; torpid; dull; dim.
  2. n. A medicine that diminishes the exertion of the irritative motions.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.

Etymologies

  1. Latin torpens, present participle of torpere to be numb. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Lastly, to all this I would add that other chearful vehicle, light; which the gloomy and torpent north is so many months depriv’d of; the too long seclusion whereof is injurious to our exotics, kept in the conservatories, since however temper’d with heat, and duly refresh’d; they grow sickly, and languish without the admission of light as well as air, as I have frequently found.”

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees

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Words with the same meaning

  1. benumbed
  1. torpid

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. torpescence
  1. torpescent

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