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Meanings of torpor in English
Synonyms
Examples for "listlessness"
Examples for "listlessness"
1
He dropped his pen in sudden listlessness, crossed aimlessly to the window.
2
Hildegard submitted with demure listlessness, and soon re-appeared in her walking costume.
3
Next to madness occur the different stages of spleen, dejection and listlessness.
4
So he worked on, no longer in listlessness, but with contemptuous amusement.
5
The childish expression left the girl's eyes, the listlessness left her attitude.
1
The extraordinary torpidity of the surrounding objects gradually affected the persons.
2
Life in the tropics, I take to be a placid torpidity.
3
Oppressed with grief, She continued for some time in this state of torpidity.
4
Do you know that you have roused the torpidity of Clarke at last?
5
It was only a temporary torpidity of the nerves, which I mistook for calmness.
Usage of torpor in English
1
This spot was the one point of energy in the universal torpor.
2
The stench was crisply nauseating, with a cold torpor of lukewarm sea.
3
The rest of the afternoon he dozed in a species of torpor.
4
She had recovered from the fatal torpor in the cool night air.
5
The shock had been too great; his deadly torpor deepened into death.
6
His faculties were still in the torpor that follows rest after exhaustion.
7
The fame of the defence of Arcot roused them from their torpor.
8
The fame of the defense of Arcot roused them from their torpor.
9
There was something, I know not what, of torpor in the scene.
10
There is a limit to the profoundest pain, to the profoundest torpor.
11
But on the spiritual side of his mind there was no torpor.
12
There are all gradations from ordinary sleep to the torpor of death.
13
After three-quarters of a century of torpor all was stir and animation.
14
So many successive blows had reduced him to a state of torpor.
15
Felipe Contepomi tried manfully but even he succumbed to the general torpor.
16
This roused him from his torpor, and he staggered to his feet.
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Torpor through the time
Torpor across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common