Modifies a noun

• state: Funny, I find separating the two one of the biggest reasons for the torpid state of the Church today.

• conscience: Howells hastily sent a line to say that he had been sleeping " The sleep of a torpid conscience.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In times of shortage, dormice will eat insects and are able to become torpid.

• lie: Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again.