"torporize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From torpor + -ize.",
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          "ref": "1824, Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence:",
          "text": "Guileless and inoffensive, the faculties of his mind were so torporized by indolence, that they were, in his short career, nearly as useless as if they had never existed; and if he was indeed a youth of great hopes, his intellect must have been of that description which is not manifested at an early period, but which is not the less valuable for its tardy development.",
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          "ref": "1828, Joseph Sutcliffe, A defence of the Immortality of the Soul against the Assumptions of Modern Infidelity, page 22:",
          "text": "The contrary opinions would torporize the human heart, and seal up the soul in the darkness of the polar regions, never agin to see the sun.",
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          "ref": "1976, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Guidebook to the True Secret of the Heart - Volume 1, page 18:",
          "text": "You have been practicing these kinds of meditations. As a result of these you take marijuana, intoxicants, LSD, opium, and so many tens of millions of things which torporize your judgment.",
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        "To fill with torpor; stupefy."
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        {
          "word": "torporise"
        }
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  "word": "torporize"
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        "To fill with torpor; stupefy."
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