Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make torpid; stupefy; numb; blunt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
torpid ; tobenumb .
Etymologies
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Latin torpere to be torpid + -fy.
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Examples
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Both of them intoxicate, derange, torpify the nervous centres and thus produce either death or paralysis, according to the method of inoculation.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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An infallible guide, which would render unnecessary any struggles on man's part, after light and truth, would torpify his powers.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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