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torporizes

torporizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about torporizes

What is torporizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Torporizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of torporize.

Words near torporizes in the dictionary

  1. torporised
  2. torporises
  3. torporising
  4. torporize
  5. torporized
  6. torporizes
  7. torporizing
  8. torpors
  9. torpour
  10. torps
  11. Torpshammar

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