dormant
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5.2
- adjective
- /ˈdɔːrmənt/
:
inactivo
- Although the project was dormant for several years, it may be restarted soon.
- lie dormant
- remain dormant
- go dormant
So it laid, it laid dormant after the siege for a long, long time.
- So it laid, it laid dormant after the siege for a long, long time.
- That dad synapses in that dad's brain form that are dormant until that child is born.
- And I think that that is a huge thing in terms of unlocking dormant happiness.
- It was actually an entire field, admittedly a bit dormant these days, that's called information geometry.
- There's one round of sex and then all the eggs sort of store go dormant and survive through the winter.
- The downside to using onion sets is the fact that you're basically buying and planting a little dormant onion.
- What that's going to do is going to prep the root system for for winter and to go dormant.
- Just by reactivating and embracing these deep elements of myself that I've forced to be dormant for so long.
- And so this is basically there's all of these things that are dormant in our mind that we have the capacity to experience.
- So again, it's kind of violating this idea that our mind is dormant and our body is just simply quiescent and and resting.
- It's important if we have things that are lying dormant inside of a character.
- And so his, well, to be fair, there's a dormant anger and probably all of us.
Examples
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These cells can lay dormant for years before turning back on.
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The seeds remained dormant in the ground until spring brought warmer weather.
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In this run, though, they had to stop building and go dormant, with nothing more to eat.
Fiction book (1999) -
The adverse safety effects of these decisions may lie dormant for a very long time.
Academic text (2003) -
Often they lie dormant, only to rise up again at the least convenient moment.
Academic text (2007) -
The question of judicial appointment lay dormant for a month following the June 19 vote.
Academic text (2005) -
It may lie dormant between feeding for years or even decades at a time.
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And now, the regime has to deal with Islamic radicalism, long dormant in Syrian political life.
Academic text (2008) -
They hatched from dormant eggs that were there for centuries.
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Retrieving teachings that have lain dormant but are especially relevant today has already been discussed.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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8.1
Not moving or changing for a time
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2.7
Not active now but likely to start again later
Not active for a short time but able to start again
Not stimulated to work and staying in a resting state
Is not working or taking part now
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dormant
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Morphology
Etymology
Dormant comes from the old Latin word dormire, meaning 'to sleep', and it shares the same root as dormitory ('place to sleep'). Think of a hidden talent or a seed that is 'sleeping' for a while — that's why dormant means temporarily inactive but able to become active again.