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 Übersetzung für 'torpid' von Englisch nach Deutsch
ADJ   torpid | more torpid | most torpid
SYNO dormant | hibernating | inert | ...
torpid {adj}betäubt
192
torpid {adj} [lethargic]antriebslos
126
torpid {adj}benommen
67
torpid {adj}träge
44
torpid {adj}apathisch
27
torpid {adj} [apathetic]abgestumpft [stumpfsinnig]
24
torpid {adj}teilnahmslos
20
torpid {adj}regungs­los
17
torpid {adj} [reaction]langsam [Reaktion]
15
torpid {adj}lethargisch
14
spec.zool.
torpid {adj}
torpid
2 Wörter
zool.
to become torpid
torpid werden
Fiktion (Literatur und Film)
lit.F
The Torpid Duke [Pauline York]
Die Schöne und der Duke
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  • torpid = torpid
  • torpid werden = to become torpid
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • These birds require frequent feeding while active during the day and become torpid at night to conserve energy.
  • It may become torpid in winter. Breeding takes place between March and July, and there may be two or more litters of four to six young per year.
  • Further, the ibis flew with a rapid twisting flight which was unusual considering its normally torpid wing beating.
  • Anthony Clark of "sci-fi-online.com" criticises the pace of the episode, describing "Flight 104" as "torpid".
  • According to Statius, Aergia was said to be the 'torpid' guard in the court of Hypnos (Sleep) in the Underworld.

  • In cold weather, it becomes torpid and looks and feels dead, but wakes at night.
  • The naval weapon known as the torpedo was named after this genus, whose own name has the same Latin origin as the English word "torpid," meaning "sluggish" or "lethargic," presumably the sensations one would feel after experiencing the ray's electric shock.
  • although not all individuals become torpid at the same body temperature.
  • Young nesting swifts are able to survive for a few days without food by dropping their body temperature and metabolic rate, entering a torpid state.
  • Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb—"to dozen"—dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning "to stun, stupefy, daze" or "to make insensible, torpid, powerless".

  • Scavenging birds, such as vultures, will gorge themselves when prey is abundant, causing their crop to bulge. They subsequently sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food.
  • Adults, especially females, rarely jump, look quite torpid and clumsy and can be easily captured with the hands.
  • Harry Windsor of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "A nifty premise — a grieving widow brings a parallel-world version of her husband back to her own, with disastrous consequences — isn't enough to transcend a torpid screenplay".
  • However, after getting cleared to play, Cissé put in a torpid performance for the club despite being given 11 starts by coach Gordon Igesund in his first six months with the Swallows.
  • The review states that on the album the band walks "a thin line between mellow and torpid" with songs that "are going to need a lot of live (concert) resuscitation".

  • "Zebrida" was described by Arthur Adams as "a torpid, though elegant little crustacean".
  • Several torpid days of inactivity follow, to the despair of Dave.
  • When the golden spiny mouse experiences reduced food availability by diet overlap with the common spiny mouse it spends more time in a torpid state.
  • Profitability returned to the long-time leader in the keyboard industry after years of torpid financial performance.
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