单词 | torporific eel |
释义 | > as lemmastorporific eel a. Causing torpor; producing numbness; paralysing; also figurative stupefying, deadening. †torporific eel, the gymnotus or electric eel (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] > rendering physically insensible senseless1579 numbing1581 numb-cold1597 astonishing1617 benumbing1628 deading1647 bedeading1656 torporific1769 sopient1804 deadening1805 torpefying1822 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > causing leaden1579 stupefying1617 benumbing1628 bedulling1656 obstupefying1660 lethargic1718 sopient1804 torporizing1822 torporific1825 lethargizing1827 torpid1830 deadening1875 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 190 There is one of the Eel tribe,..which I shall beg leave to call the Torporific Eel. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 77/2 The torporific sway of Austria. 1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 632 Galen..tells the Torpedo affects by a torporific action peculiar to itself. < as lemmas |
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