Torpor is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TORPOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) mental or physical inactivity
• a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy
• torpid state
• Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
• Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
• a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
• inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

Words related to TORPOR

torpitude12 torpors9

Words that contain TORPOR

torpors9 torporific17

How to use TORPOR in a sentence

• They dwelt obstinately, unceasingly upon Montesma, the man whose influence had awakened the slumbering soul from its torpor, had stirred the deeps of a passionate nature.
• His faculties were still in the torpor that follows rest after exhaustion.
• He should wake up soon from this unnatural torpor of pain to an empty house of life, through the cold halls of which he would seek in vain for Jenny for evermore.
• Many years elapsed before art and literature recovered from the terror and the torpor of 1527.
• While lying in a half torpor on your lap, I have again, as if out of another world, heard every syllable which you uttered.
• The wind had died out and a heavy torpor lay upon the water.
• The torpor again overcame him and he slept in the saddle.
• The abbess tried many gentle expedients to arouse Salome from her moral torpor, but all her efforts were fruitless.
• This formidable league roused Leopold from his torpor, and he awoke like the waking of the lion.
• When Mary had arrived at about the middle of her work, she was seized with a temporary fit of torpor and indolence, and began to repent of her undertaking.
• France partook of the general awakening and was throwing off the torpor of centuries.
• He had sunk, indeed, into such mental torpor that, if other people had not remembered that he was an emperor, he was certainly beginning to forget it himself.
• Nothing stirred the horrible torpor of her resignation to her fate.
• The air preceding certain storms in our climate has a peculiar effect in creating a species of torpor.
• The next day and many days after I was unable to shake off the feeling of mental torpor and a vague regret for what had been and what had gone for ever.
• The herder, despite his apparent torpor, was the first to hear the faint thud of hoofs in the loose sand of the roadway.
• Not even an environment as unpromising as that of Enniscar in its winter torpor had power to dismay her.
• The torpor which had overtaken our Church extended itself to all forms of Christianity.
• But with the first note of the music all was forgotten, and one fell into a state of painful yet delicious torpor.
• Then silence drew a sheet of fog around herself and passed into a cold torpor of repose, affected only by the waves that licked the shores with intermittent thirst.
• The torpor of the national consciousness had vanished.
• The world was coming forth from its torpor of winter refreshed and strengthened.
• All through our journey Louis sat sunk in almost unbroken torpor, and did not recognize me.
• With respect to the torpor supposed to accompany the practice of opium-eating, I deny that also.
• The soft rustle of a silk dress roused him from his torpor by its familiar sound.
• Scarcely had I finished my repast, when I felt myself sink by degrees into a strange torpor.
• He had little hope for me, and I had indifferent hope myself, lying in torpor and finding it an effort to speak.

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