torporificadj.n.
/tɔːpəˈrɪfɪk/ a. Causing torpor; producing numbness; paralysing; also figurative stupefying, deadening. †torporific eel, the gymnotus or electric eel (obsolete).
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] > rendering physically insensible
senseless1579
numbing1581
numb-cold1597
astonishing1617
benumbing1628
deading1647
bedeading1656
torporific1769
sopient1804
deadening1805
torpefying1822
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > causing
leaden1579
stupefying1617
benumbing1628
bedulling1656
obstupefying1660
lethargic1718
sopient1804
torporizing1822
torporific1825
lethargizing1827
torpid1830
deadening1875
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 190 There is one of the Eel tribe,..which I shall beg leave to call the Torporific Eel.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 77/2 The torporific sway of Austria.
1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 632 Galen..tells the Torpedo affects by a torporific action peculiar to itself.
b. absol. as n. Something causing torpor.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > causing > one who or that which
torpedoa1593
opium1608
opiate1641
reposera1648
sedative1785
torporific1840
1840 H. E. Manning Let. in E. S. Purcell Life Cardinal Manning (1895) I. ix. 169 I find the want of such opportunities of conversation a great torporific.
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