adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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By 1976, the union had become torpid , old, and bureaucratic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lime-green chameleon, stretching from fence to shrub in torpid motion, beguiled us.
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For nearly half-an-hour nothing happened, no sound broke the torpid silence of the village citadel.
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In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box.
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The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.
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Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.