Synonym: inactive, sleeping. Antonym: active, awake. Similar words: performance, format, formal, normally, informal, formation, German, germany. Meaning: ['dɔːmənt] adj. 1. of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct 2. lying with head on paws as if sleeping 3. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation 4. inactive but capable of becoming active.
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31 The banks have conducted two internal audits and come up with about $ 30 million in dormant accounts.
32 Winter is the ideal time to install it, as plants are dormant.
33 The practical difficulty, of course, is to ensure that a partner agrees to a dormant status.
34 The disease may remain dormant and undetected until it is transmitted to other fish through abrasions to the skin.
35 Within ten to thirty days between twenty to fifty new plants begin to develop from the dormant buds on the rhizome.
36 It will make distinctions between vital and dormant areas, Courtney said.
37 The account was then allowed to lie dormant while Yousefi collected the cheque books sent out at regular intervals.
38 At this time brambles are dormant, the sap is within the ground and the brambles themselves have become dry.
39 The campaign to preserve Niagara remained dormant until, in 1878, Frederic Church jumped into the breach.
40 Take a dry, dormant savanna, desert or thorn scrub and rouse it into spring with rising temperatures.
41 Vologsky's need to feel that he was not alone in the world had lain dormant for a long time.
42 In a corner, hoses lay coiled like a family of dormant snakes.
43 The present tidal estuary is far from dormant; in fact, it's bursting with life.
44 It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Joseph Conrad
45 Since the inflorescence is not yet known, the plant is propagated only from dormant buds on the rhizome.
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46 Others will be told that there are definitely still some cancer cells present, but that they may lie dormant for years.
47 The worm is now poised to emerge from its dormant phase and begin to spread rapidly by colonising more machines and sites.
48 Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
49 When the temperature drops they become dormant but remain alive.
50 It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
51 The term dormant volcano is applied during the period between eruptions to those volcanoes thought to be potentially active.
52 These energies often lie dormant till triggered by some unforeseen event or response.
53 Wait to prune your roses until they are fully dormant in January.
54 The plant can be reproduced by obtaining bud plants from dormant buds on the rhizome[sentencedict.com], but reproduction is usually from seeds.
55 Within a few months, seeds - which had lain dormant for many years - germinated.
56 A company does not obtain the exemption merely by being dormant.
57 A long dormant memory stirred.
58 Bacteria that lie dormant can escape antibiotics.
59 Bears lie dormant during the winter.
60 Many animals are in dormant state during winter.
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