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torporizing

torporizing is the present participle and gerund 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 torporizing

What is torporizing the present participle and gerund of?
Torporizing is the present participle and gerund of torporize.

Words near torporizing in the dictionary

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

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