torpescent

English

Etymology

Latin torpescens.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

torpescent (comparative more torpescent, superlative most torpescent)

  1. Becoming torpid or numb.
    • a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets:
      Of words indeed profuse,
      Of gold tenacious, their torpescent ſoul
      Clenches their coin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “torpescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

torpēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of torpēscō
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