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- Dictionarydormant/ˈdɔːm(ə)nt/
adjective
- 1. (of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time; in or as if in a deep sleep: "dormant butterflies"
- 2. temporarily inactive or inoperative: "that dormant urge to write fiction has re-emerged"
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DORMANT definition: 1. Something that is dormant is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later…. Learn more.
dormant: [adjective] represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws.
DORMANT meaning: 1. Something that is dormant is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later…. Learn more.
dormant: 1 adj inactive but capable of becoming active “her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened” Synonyms: abeyant inactive not active physically or mentally adj in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation “ dormant buds” Synonyms: hibernating , torpid asleep in a state of sleep adj (of e.g. volcanos) not ...
Dormant definition: lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid. See examples of DORMANT used in a sentence.
5 meanings: 1. quiet and inactive, as during sleep 2. latent or inoperative 3. (of a volcano) neither extinct nor erupting 4..... Click for more definitions.
Dormant definition: Not awake; asleep. The developing seed thus encloses fungal hyphae, which remain dormant within the seed and in spring develop symbiotically with the growth of the wheat plant, doing no apparent injury until the time of fruiting is reached, when the fungus takes complete possession and fills the new seed with a mass of darkcoloured spores.
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Oxford Collocations Dictionary Dormant is used with these nouns: volcano; See full entry. Word Origin late Middle English (in the senses ‘fixed in position’ and ‘latent’): from Old French, ‘sleeping’, present participle of dormir, from Latin dormire ‘to sleep’. Join us. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press!
DORMANT meaning: not active or developing now, but possibly active in the future: . Learn more.
