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She fell into a deep torpor.torpor = a state of low-energy and inactivity
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I snapped out of the torpor and began living life again.
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His years were too heavy upon him, the debility of disease and the lethargy and torpor of the silence and the cold were too profound.† (source)
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And within five minutes, the class had sunk back into its usual torpor. (source)torpor = lack of energy and enthusiasm
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You must expunge yourself of this … this torpor. (source)torpor = a state of low-energy and inactivity
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Miss Avocet stayed on, emerging from her torpor now and then to wander the halls, calling out forlornly for her poor abandoned wards before slumping into someone's arms to be taken back to bed. (source)torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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Delegate William Hooper of North Carolina, another signer of the Declaration of Independence, described a prevailing "torpor" in Congress. (source)torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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Now, Vivaldo, who was accustomed himself to labor, to be the giver of the gift, and enter into his satisfaction by means of the satisfaction of a woman, surrendered to the luxury, the flaming torpor of passivity, and whispered in Eric's ear a muffled, urgent plea. (source)torpor = rest or inactivity
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Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor. (source)torpor = state of sluggishness or low energy
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They slept much of the time and often did nothing, in animal-like torpor. (source)torpor = state of low-energy and inactivity
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The town, under the stimulus of the holidays and the returning students, had wakened momentarily from its winter torpor: warm brisk currents of life seethed over the pavements. (source)
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At the sight of another human being my torpor passed, and I leaned out of the window eagerly. (source)
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He was soggily sleepy, after two country drives on muddy roads, and in his torpor he gave her an overdose of strychnin, which so shocked and stimulated her that she decided to be well. (source)torpor = a state of low-energy
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She was the only one of his family who could rouse the old man from the torpor in which he seemed to live. (source)torpor = low-energy inactivity
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...and he told himself that he would do better to rest for a little, that there would be time enough later on, and settled back into his corner with as little curiosity, with as much torpor as the drowsy traveller who pulls his cap down over his eyes so as to get some sleep in the railway-carriage that is drawing him, he feels, faster and faster, out of the country in which he has lived for so long, and which he vowed that he would not allow to slip away from him without looking out to bid it a last farewell. (source)torpor = lethargy or lassitude (a state of low-energy and inactivity)
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But at last the roar of a bigger and nearer break than usual brought her out of her torpor, and she looked up, and her practiced eye fell upon that telltale rush of water. (source)torpor = a state of low-energy and inactivity
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