Etymology

torpify

T1O1R1P3I1F4Y4

Today it means: To make torpid; to benumb, to paralyse. Full definition →

Latin torpere
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtorpere“to be torpid”
  2. English todaytorpify

From Latin torpere (“to be torpid”) + -fy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.