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torpent

torpent adjective: having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.

Adjective

torpent (comparative more torpent, superlative most torpent)

  1. (obsolete) Having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.
    • frail and torpent Memory through so multifarious and numerous an Employment1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Noun

torpent (plural torpents)

  1. (obsolete) A numbing agent.

Forms of torpent

Adjective
comparativemore torpent
superlativemost torpent
Noun
pluraltorpents

Origin of torpent

From Latin torpens, present participle of torpere (“to be numb”).

Questions about torpent

What does torpent mean?
Torpent means having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.
What part of speech is torpent?
Torpent can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near torpent in the dictionary

  1. torpefied
  2. torpefies
  3. torpefy
  4. torpefying
  5. Torpenhow
  6. torpent
  7. torpents
  8. torpescence
  9. torpescent
  10. Torpex
  11. Torpey

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