Meanings of become torpid in English

As soon as the senses become torpid, the inner man withdraws from the outer.

Yellow fever epidemics are terminated by cold weather because the mosquitoes die or become torpid.

Bouvard passed them quickly across to Pécuchet, who ranged them on the side on which they had become torpid.

Either from pain, fear or starvation, the thing confined in the hollow tube of this awful duplicate was become torpid.

Without light or heat during all that dreary winter, they must freeze stiff like the frogs or become torpid like the bears.

There is a tribe of animals constantly around our country habitations, of underground and nocturnal habits, some of which become torpid in winter.

Through the cold season they lay snug in their houses-althoughnot in a state of torpidity, as the beaver does not become torpid in winter.

He throws a last glance over the colonies, which are becoming torpid.

Gazing on her, and hearing her exclamations, I became torpid.

He gorges himself with it till all his faculties are overpowered and his mind becomes torpid.

Moreover, Gnulemah developed rapidly, while Nurse underwent a process of gradual congealment,-herwits and emotions became torpid.

Through lack of exercise, the appetite fails, the liver becomes torpid, and the muscular and nervous systems lose their tone.

When the belly, or glandular part of these lymphatics, becomes torpid, the fluid absorbed by its mouth stagnates, and forms a tumour in the gland.