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Adjective: torpid  tor-pid
  1. Slow and apathetic
    "a mind grown torpid in old age";
    - inert, sluggish, dozy [Brit, informal]
     
  2. (biology) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
    "torpid frogs";
    - dormant, hibernating

See also: asleep, inactive, sleeping

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