What does torporize mean?
Torporize means To fill with torpor; stupefy..
Torporize
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Meaning
To fill with torpor; stupefy..
Example Sentences
Guileless and inoffensive, the faculties of his mind were so torporized by indolence, that they were, in his short career, nearly as useless as if they had never existed; and if he was indeed a youth of great hopes, his intellect must have been of that description which is not manifested at an early period, but which is not the less valuable for its tardy development.
The contrary opinions would torporize the human heart, and seal up the soul in the darkness of the polar regions, never agin to see the sun.
You have been practicing these kinds of meditations. As a result of these you take marijuana, intoxicants, LSD, opium, and so many tens of millions of things which torporize your judgment.
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- torporizes
- torporizing
- torporized
- torporise
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Guileless and inoffensive, the faculties of his mind were so torporized by indolence, that they were, in his short career, nearly as useless as if they had never existed; and if he was indeed a youth of great hopes, his intellect must have been of that description which is not manifested at an early period, but which is not the less valuable for its tardy development.
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