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Significados de torpid em inglês

Slow and apathetic.

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In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.

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Uso de torpid em inglês
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Still no applause from the conspirators; they sat torpid as frozen men.
Zanoni
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In their strange torpid state the creatures didn't seem to notice her.
Metro 2034
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Hence it would appear that the acetate had rendered the leaves torpid.
Insectivorous Plants
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His torpid eyes, sunk in fat, were fixed upon the ikon stand.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
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Bluebell continued in a torpid condition, scarcely giving any signs of life.
Bluebell / A Novel
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Wilder had spoken, to awaken the drowsy, and to excite the torpid.
The Red Rover: A Tale
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The weather was warm with that torpid, damp heat peculiar to summer.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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He throws a last glance over the colonies, which are becoming torpid.
The Life of the Bee
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When he came back to her she was still cold and torpid.
The Helpmate
10
A few insects found him, but they were torpid in the cold.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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His mind, too, was in a torpid state, but might gradually awaken.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
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Arnold's rather torpid imagination suddenly opened to the story he had heard.
The Bent Twig
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He sat up, wrestling with himself, trying to clear his torpid brain.
The History of David Grieve
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Like some unthinkable torpid giant, New Crobuzon shifts easily in its dreams.
Perdido Street Station
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Let the torpid monk seek heaven comfortless and alone, God speed him!
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
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The forces of destruction lay torpid in the starry shadow of the night.
The Judgment House
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