What is the meaning of torpid?

adjective

  • Slow and apathetic.
    • usage: "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"
  • In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.
    • usage: "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"
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