torpify

English

Etymology

From Latin torpere (“to be torpid”) + -fy.

Verb

torpify (third-person singular simple present torpifies, present participle torpifying, simple past and past participle torpified)

1. (dated, transitive) To make torpid; to benumb, to paralyse.

References

• “torpify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tropify