Benumbed; insensible; inactive.Specifically, dormant, as an animal in hibernation or estivation, when it passes its time in sleep: as, a torpid snake.Figuratively, dull; sluggish; apathetic.Pertaining to the torpids, or Lent boat-races at Oxford. See II.n. A second-class racing-boat at Oxford, corresponding to the slogger of Cambridge; also, one of the crew of such a boat.n. plural The Lent boat-races at Oxford.