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Definition

in people: inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

or:

in animals: a condition of biological rest or suspended animation — (could be in the evening, during the cold, or as in a dormant state all winter)

She fell into a deep torpor.

torpor = lethargy (a state of lazy inactivity)

And within five minutes, the class had sunk back into its usual torpor.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

torpor = lethargy (lack of energy or vigor)

At length the death-stricken old man lay quietly in the torpor of mental and bodily exhaustion, with an imperceptible pulse, and breath that grew fainter and fainter, except when a long, deep, and irregular inspiration seemed to prelude the flight of his spirit.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

torpor = inactivity

She was the only one of his family who could rouse the old man from the torpor in which he seemed to live.
Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
She still lay back in the chair, possessed by a torpor like the torpor of death—insensible to sound, insensible to touch.
Collins, Wilkie -- The Haunted Hotel
LOUISA awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room.
Dickens, Charles -- Hard Times
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.
London, Jack -- The Red One
Bazarov did not get up again that day, and passed the whole night in heavy, half-unconscious torpor.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
The plan had been to feed the beasts and chain them in their torpor, just as the queen had done.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
When there she threw herself on the bed with her clothes on, and lay in apparent torpor, as she had done once before on a memorable day of grief.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Delegate William Hooper of North Carolina, another signer of the Declaration of Independence, described a prevailing "torpor" in Congress.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
Scarcely had I finished my repast, when I felt myself sink by degrees into a strange torpor.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Thomas feels something crack inside, releasing him from the torpor that stifled his movements and slowed his thoughts.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
The bodies prone in them seemed startled out of their torpor by his movement.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
A dull torpor of the soul or the dullness of the thundercloud, charged with intellection and capable of the gloom of God?
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
They slept much of the time and often did nothing, in animal-like torpor.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
They shared in the torpor of the town and in its puerile agitations.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
Then came again that rolling noise like thunder which had awakened me out of torpor.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Little by little she sank into a torpor—she fell silent.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

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