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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
torpify .
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Examples
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And if I may venture to make a jest upon you, you seem to me both in your appearance and in your power over others to be very like the flat torpedo fish, who torpifies those who come near him and touch him, as you have now torpified me, I think.
Harold Jarche on the relevance of the learning professional Karyn Romeis 2006
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If it does rest in anything, however relatively noble that thing may be, whether art, or literature, or science, or theology, even, it declines in vitality -- it torpifies.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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And if I may venture to make a jest upon you, you seem to me both in your appearance and in your power over others to be very like the flat torpedo fish, who torpifies those who come near him and touch him, as you have now torpified me, I think.
Meno 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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