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Torpor
torpor
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from torpere Date: 13th century 1. a. a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility b. a state of lowered physiological activity typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature that occurs in varying degrees especially in hibernating and estivating animals 2. apathy, dullness Synonyms: see lethargy
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2.
1. тупость, глупость a state of savage torpor —- состояние животной тупости 2. апатия, безразличие 3. онемелость, оцепенение; летаргия; спячка deathlike torpor —- летаргическое оцепенение to be in a torpor —- быть в состоянии оцепенения ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
Torpor is the state of being completely inactive mentally or physically, for example because of illness or laziness. (FORMAL) He had slumped into a state of torpor from which nothing could rouse him... The sick person gradually falls into a torpor. N-UNCOUNT: also a N ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n formal a state of being not active because you are lazy or sleepy (stirring the wasps from their winter torpor) - torpidity n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1607, from L. torpor "numbness," from torpere "be numb." TORQUE - 1884, from L. torquere "to twist." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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