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torporise

torporise is the alternative form of torporize.

Meaning of torporize

Verb

torporize (third-person singular simple present torporizes, present participle torporizing, simple past and past participle torporized)

  1. To fill with torpor; stupefy.
    • 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...1824, Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence

Forms of torporise

third-person singular presenttorporises
present participletorporising
past participletorporised
pasttorporised

Origin of torporise

From torpor + -ise.

Questions about torporise

What is torporise the alternative form of?
Torporise is the alternative form of torporize.

Words near torporise in the dictionary

  1. torples
  2. torpling
  3. Torpoint
  4. torpor
  5. torporific
  6. torporise
  7. torporised
  8. torporises
  9. torporising
  10. torporize
  11. torporized

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