torporem affere alicui rei, torpore hebetare aliquid; obstupefacere. Benumbed, rigidus, rigens; torpidus, obstupefactus. To be benumbed, rigidum esse, rigere, torpere, torpidum esse; stupere: to become so, rigescere, obrigescere, torposcere, obtorpescere, stupescere, obstupescere. The hand is benumbed, manus obtorpuit. My eyes were benumbed, torpuerant genae doloro. To become benumbed with fear, prae metu obtorpescere.