All 3 Uses
torpor
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
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- "For Peppino!" cried Andrea, who seemed roused from the torpor in which he had been plunged.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- —sleep broken by nervous spasms, excitation of the brain, torpor of the nerve centres.†
Chpt 73-74
- Morrel, overpowered, turned around in the arm-chair; a delicious torpor permeated every vein.†
Chpt 117
Definitions:
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(1)
(torpor) a state of low activity and reduced energy: in people, sluggishness and inactivity; in animals, a kind of deep rest with slowed body processes (as during cold periods or winter dormancy)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)