英语词汇“torpefy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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torpefy

释义

torpefy, v.|ˈtɔːpɪfaɪ|
(erron. torpify.)
[ad. L. torpefacĕre, f. torpē-re to be numb + facĕre to make.]
trans. To render torpid, benumb, deaden, paralyse. Also fig. Hence ˈtorpefying ppl. a.
1808Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 117/2 The common eel, when equally frozen and torpefied, is capable of being conveyed a thousand miles up the country.1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 203 Sternutatories, which exhaust, weaken and torpefy the nerves of smell.Ibid. 432 Carbonic acid,..chiefly found in the guise of a torpefying vapour, in close rooms where charcoal has been burnt.1829Southey Sir T. More II. 117 To stablish, and to quicken his belief, not to shake, or torpify it.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 280 Like the flat torpedo fish, who torpifies those who come near him with the touch.

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