Adjective
unmoving
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dormant or hibernating
lazy, lethargic or apathetic
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Noun
An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
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In our first year I had seen him coming away from Blackwell's clutching a great textbook of chemistry with an air of anticipatory delight, and also on the river as cox of one of the Lincoln torpids.
Adjective
slow and apathetic
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she was fat and inert
a sluggish worker
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a mind grown torpid in old age
in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
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dormant buds
a hibernating bear
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torpid frogs