Examples of 'torpid' in a sentence
Meaning of "torpid"
torpid (adjective) - Characterized by a state of sluggishness, inactivity, or lethargy
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- unmoving
- dormant or hibernating
- lazy, lethargic or apathetic
- An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
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I am too torpid to venture out now.
Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
Stirring up the torpid consciences of voters.
Your liver must be torpid.
Your body is torpid from your toes to your head.
Because of the money they become cowardly and torpid people.
It may become torpid in winter.
It was torpid and still in the cold and let me pick it up.
During the night they go into a torpid state to conserve energy.
But the success of his presidency depends on whether he can revive the torpid economy.
Animals were quite torpid but still capable of swimming after being disturbed.
The pacing is torpid.
These cases are characterized by torpid progression and potentially fatal or disabling outcome.
I am getting torpid.
This makes the torpid Web experience even more frustrating.
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I swear I have never seen a more torpid individual.
Some TG mice became torpid after fasting durations not known to affect other mice.
Hibernate, to pass the winter in a dormant or torpid state.
This book should cure every torpid liver and chronic grouch in America.
This would never have happened . instead of moping about like some torpid old she-cow.
You are the most torpid creature in the world!
Its level decreases, and then there is persistent hypotension, which doctors call the torpid phase.
They will spend November through February in a torpid state in their underground burrows.
Several torpid days of inactivity follow, to the despair of Dave.
Instead of moping about like some torpid old she-cow.
In cold weather, it becomes torpid and looks and feels dead, but wakes at night.
Basaglia thereby managed to inflict a salutary shock on Italian psychiatry, which had previously been torpid.
There also, borders are deterritorialized, and the torpid banners of xenophobia are bravely repelled.
And so the torpid Teuton wedges himself yet further into the sagging cleft of power!
Although they may occasionally become torpid during cold nights, they do not hibernate.
Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid.
The metabolic rate for torpid animals can decrease up to 95 percent of its resting rate.
Eminent physicians treated me for hereditary consumption, torpid liver, and many other diseases.
So, this is how torpid people are when they forget their Real Selves.
The autumn colors were getting closer to winter, torpid browns, more silver and white.
But in her torpid state, she 's helpless, as the gorgonopsid feasts.
Rose Hattenbarger, BlueBell beat blogger for the otherwise torpid official town Web site.
Two, Your body is torpid from your toes to your head.
When food is scarce, or in cold weather, it becomes torpid to conserve energy.
Tuesday 's torpid active recovery.
There is little evidence, then, that the citizenry is, in general, torpid or complacent.
I Lied " is a ballad that contains a torpid production that does not change tempo.
Bonjour Tristesse is an elegant, ice cold, charade of emotions, completely artificial and eventually torpid.
Attending physicians discover Joseph Capelli in a torpid state bleeding from apparently self-inflicted wounds.
It 's a torpid phase of shock.
The word “ deal ” stirred the torpid neurons.
While some mice become torpid on a regular basis, others only infrequently, or never, become torpid.
Keratouveitis, endothelitis, certain torpid ulcers and periodic fluxion of horses ;.
Without competition, capitalism is torpid and favours the few, not the many.
This anti-inflammatory product stops the healing process, torpid sores, bacterial and fungal superinfections.
