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Dormancy

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Noun

1. dormancy, quiescence, quiescency

a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction

Example Sentences:
'the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy'

2. dormancy, quiescence, quiescency, sleeping

quiet and inactive restfulness

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dormancy

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adjective
1. 
quiet and inactive, as during sleep
2. 
latent or inoperative
3. 
(of a volcano) neither extinct nor erupting
4. biology
alive but in a resting torpid condition with suspended growth and reduced metabolism
5. (usually postpositive) heraldry
(of a beast) in a sleeping position

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Dormancy

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adjective
1. 
sleeping
2. 
as if asleep; quiet; still
3. 
inoperative; inactive
4.  Biology
a. 
torpid in winter; in a state of suspended animation
b. 
live, but not actively growing
5.  Heraldry
lying down in a sleeping position
a lion dormant
see also couchant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dormancy

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adj.
1. Not awake; asleep: "[He] lay dormant on the scruffy couch, his mouth open, reading glasses slumped on his swollen nostrils" (Steven Heighton).
2. Present but not active or manifest though capable of becoming so: "a harrowing experience which ... lay dormant but still menacing" (Charles Jackson). See Synonyms at inactive.
3. Temporarily inactive: a dormant volcano.
4. Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes: a dormant bud; a dormant bacterium.

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