torporize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 early period, but which is not the less valuable for its tardy development."
- "The contrary opinions would torporize the human heart, and seal up the soul in the darkness of the polar regions, never agin to see the sun."
- "You have been practicing these kinds of meditations. As a result of these you take marijuana, intoxicants, LSD, opium, and so many tens of millions of things which torporize your judgment."
Etymology
From torpor + -ize.