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dormant

When something is dormant, it means that it is not active. That is a dormant volcano.

dormant

(= hibernating, torpid) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation dormant buds a hibernating bear torpid frogs (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct a dormant volcano (= sleeping) lying with head on paws as if sleeping inactive but capable of becoming active her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened

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At the end of the sleep the dormant awakes.
Volcanoes can be active, dormant, or extinct.
Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano located in Tanzania.
In each of us there lies a dormant superhuman.

Movie subtitles

I have created, by my method, a perfect human brain-already living, but dormant.
Assault lies dormant within us all.
And I start it with this dancer, the beset one in every household, lying dormant after sweeping out the nazis and all other evils!
That time it was out, it's its last dormant stage just before it reproduces.
He has reached the conclusion that the breadfruit has a dormant period, sir.
A dormant period?
Well, is it dormant, or isn't it?
Sir, this proves that the dormant season has begun.
He's alive, but his brain is dormant.
Probably from dormant genes in Lazarus's DNA.
An inheritance of dormant faculties.
Although your eyes are open and you seem aware, you are, in fact, asleep, your faculties dormant, your ability to act and think subservient to my will.
Her mental disturbance remained dormant for ten years.
Look through my eyes dormant.
I have created, by my method, a perfect human brain - already living, but dormant.
You have awakened in me all that should have stayed dormant.
We will sweep with our bright tails through our dormant surroundings that ail us so.
Its substance unknown, its secrets unexplored, the meteor lies dormant in the night, waiting.
It's dormant.
In Mexico, they found a frog, which they think lay dormant for two million years.
Latent feelings of inadequacy lay dormant until he was triggered by Leonard parading before you in his rich, many colored feathers.
Her mental disturbance remained dormant for ten years. until she came across a painting that depicted the horrible scene. ofwhich she had been the protagonist.
You know the way I see it. it's dormant.
Not to lie there dormant.
In these small Japanese women lies dormant the same. volcanic temper as in the men of this volcanic country, and once. either the volcano eruptes, or.
Yes, their life force is dormant.
Distortions like this aren't rare, they derive from physiological factors and childhood traumas, that lay dormant in the body forever while our conscience has forgotten them.
Axonite was just the dormant state until I activated it.
The Axonite'll cease to be dormant. and it'll continue to grow, gentlemen, until every living thing is consumed.
INTO A KIND OF FRENZIED WAKEFULNESS AND SOME WHO'VE BEEN DORMANT UNTIL NOW HAVE COME OUT.
Captain, in your wisdom, you observed that whilst the Mentiads lay dormant with no leader and no purpose, we were well enough protected.
We have got trillions of dormant genes in us, our whole evolutionary past.
At extremely low temperatures the virus is completely dormant.
Meyer said that the virus is dormant in cold temperatures.
We know this virus remains dormant under sub-zero conditions.
The first few pages warn that these enduring creatures may lie dormant but are never truly dead.
I think some dormant egg survived.

News and current affairs

This is a point made most recently by former ECB president Wim Duisenberg in a CNN interview -- Europe must wait before its dormant growth engine re-ignites.
To date, however, this legislation has lain dormant.
In a world of slow growth, high debt, and tremendous distributional pressures, whether inflation is dead or merely dormant is an important question.
Recognizing that inflation is only dormant renders foolish the oft-stated claim that any country with a flexible exchange rate has nothing to fear from high debt, as long as debt is issued in its own currency.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, too, has identified increased female labor-force participation as critical to efforts to revive his country's long-dormant economy.
The Quartet has been dormant since 2000, because any peace process requires negotiations between the parties in conflict.
But whoever wins will need new ideas and initiatives to reinvigorate a dormant institution.
When conditions improve, the dormant life forms revive and reproduce.
Resolving these semi-dormant wars requires stepped-up political involvement, economic engagement, and a willingness to provide Western peacekeeping forces and monitors if and when they are needed.
But, as of early December, Britain has remained dormant.
But, with today's dormant markets, the pickings are slim.
The practice of the faculties (education) unleashes potential that would otherwise remain dormant.
Recent studies - from both the laboratory and the clinic - suggest that many cancer cells that leave the primary tumor may lodge themselves in new organs and go into a dormant state.
We also have evidence that says that these dormant cells may resist most current treatments.
Moreover, we are beginning to identify molecular mechanisms that regulate the entry of cancer cells into a dormant state, as well as their re-awakening at later times.
We also need to understand better the prevalence of long-term dormant disease in patients.
It is often said that Germany in particular needs what one former German president called a push ( Ruck ) to mobilize the dormant forces of its people.
It may also reignite long-dormant debates about the type of capitalism that produces the greatest prosperity.
With its loans to Hungary and Latvia, the European Commission has already revived a credit facility which was dormant since the European Monetary System crisis in 1992 - and for countries outside EMU.
Inflation may be dormant, but it is certainly not dead.
This suggests that the issue of modernization, which lay dormant throughout the fat years of high oil prices, is back on the Kremlin agenda.
The best way to make that point would be to revive the dormant debate about adopting narrow guidelines for military intervention, as recommended by my commission and Secretary-General Annan prior to the UN vote in 2005.

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