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) (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