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dormant

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English

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A heraldic lion dormant.

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Etymology

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FromMiddle English, fromOld French, fromLatindormiēns, present participle ofdormiō(“I sleep”).

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Adjective

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dormant (notcomparable)

  1. Inactive,sleeping,asleep,suspended.
    Grass goesdormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
    The bank account wasdormant; there had been no transactions in months.
    This volcano isdormant but not extinct.
    • 1777,Edmund Burke,A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America; republished inThe Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, volume 2,1864,page10:
      It is by lyingdormant a long time, or being at first very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
    • 1992,Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, inSeize the Moment‎[1],Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page179:
      The repression at Tiananmen Square dealt a serious but not fatal blow to the pro-democracy movement. It has been forced to liedormant until a future moment of opportunity. As the revolutions in Eastern Europe proved, however, that moment will eventually come.
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Thresher Maws Codex entry:
      Thresher maws are subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating or searching for something to eat. Threshers reproduce via spores that liedormant for millennia, yet are robust enough to survive prolonged periods in deep space and atmospheric re-entry. As a result, thresher spores appear on many worlds, spread by previous generations of space travelers.
  2. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished fromcouchant.
    a liondormant
  3. (architecture)Leaning.

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“inactive, suspended”):active
  • (antonym(s) of“volcano: inactive”):active,extinct

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Translations

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inactive, asleep, suspended

Noun

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dormant (pluraldormants)

  1. (architecture) Acrossbeam orjoist.

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French

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dormant (femininedormante,masculine pluraldormants,feminine pluraldormantes)

  1. dormant
  2. asleep

Derived terms

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Participle

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dormant

  1. presentparticiple ofdormir

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Norman

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Verb

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dormant

  1. presentparticiple ofdormi
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