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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torpid \Tor"pid\ (t[^o]r"p[i^]d), a. [L. torpidus, fr. torpere
to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.]
1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling;
numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
[1913 Webster]

Without heat all things would be torpid. --Ray.
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2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. --Sir M. Hale.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torpid \Tor"pid\, n. [See Torpid, a.] [Slang, Oxford
University, Eng.]
1. An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. pl. The Lenten rowing races.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

WordNet torpid
adj 1: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert,
sluggish]
2: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
"dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn:
dormant, hibernating(a)]

Moby Dictionary
Laodicean , Olympian , abeyant , abiding , aloof , apathetic , benumbed ,
blah , blase , bored , cataleptic , catatonic , changeless , comatose ,
constant , continuing , dead , debilitated , desensitized , detached ,
disinterested , dopey , dormant , droopy , drugged , dull , durable ,
enduring , enervated , exanimate , faineant , firm , fixed , flat , foul ,
frozen , groggy , heartless , heavy , hebetudinous , hopeless , immobile ,
immutable , in a stupor , in abeyance , in suspense , inactive ,
inanimate , indifferent , indolent , inert , insouciant , intact ,
inviolate , jaded , lackadaisical , languid , languorous , lasting ,
latent , leaden , lethargic , lifeless , listless , logy , lumpish ,
moribund , motionless , nonchalant , numb , numbed , passive , permanent ,
perpetual , persistent , phlegmatic , pluckless , pococurante , pooped ,
quiescent , remaining , resigned , rigid , sated , sedentary , slack ,
sleeping , sleepy , slothful , slow , slow-moving , slow-paced ,
sluggish , slumbering , slumberous , smoldering , sodden , solid ,
somnolent , soporific , spiritless , spunkless , stable , stagnant ,
stagnating , standing , static , stationary , staying , steadfast ,
stoic , stultified , stupefied , stupid , supine , suspended , sustained ,
tame , unaltered , unaroused , uncaring , unchangeable , unchanged ,
unchanging , unchecked , unconcerned , undestroyed , unfading ,
unfailing , uninterested , unshifting , unvaried , unvarying ,
vegetable , vegetative , wan , weary , withdrawn , world-weary

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