torpid

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtorpidtor‧pid /ˈtɔːpɪd $ ˈtɔːr-/ adjective formal LAZYnot active because you are lazy or sleepy a torpid mindExamples from the Corpustorpid• Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.• In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box.• A lime-green chameleon, stretching from fence to shrub in torpid motion, beguiled us.• By 1976, the union had become torpid, old, and bureaucratic.• For nearly half-an-hour nothing happened, no sound broke the torpid silence of the village citadel.• The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.Origin torpid (1600-1700) Latin torpidus, from torpere “to be stiff or without feeling”

单词	torpid
释义	torpid From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtorpidtor‧pid /ˈtɔːpɪd $ ˈtɔːr-/ adjective formal LAZYnot active because you are lazy or sleepy a torpid mindExamples from the Corpustorpid• Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.• In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box.• A lime-green chameleon, stretching from fence to shrub in torpid motion, beguiled us.• By 1976, the union had become torpid, old, and bureaucratic.• For nearly half-an-hour nothing happened, no sound broke the torpid silence of the village citadel.• The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.Origin torpid (1600-1700) Latin torpidus, from torpere “to be stiff or without feeling”
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