American English pronunciation
How to pronounce dormant
IPA transcription: ['dɔɹmənt]
Pronunciation variants: ['dɔɹmənt]['dɚmənt]
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Adjective
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(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
“a dormant volcano”
Adjective
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in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
“dormant buds”
“a hibernating bear”
“torpid frogs”
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lying with head on paws as if sleeping
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inactive but capable of becoming active
“her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened”
Usage examples
- However, these projects have since remained dormant.
- Thus, even novel concepts were proposed to have been dormant in some sense.
- Lacking financial backing, the "White Freedom Party" is currently dormant.
- The title of Lord Oliphant is now dormant.
- After Boyd's departure from Hannibal the label lay dormant.
- The pseudobulb stays dormant, till a new one starts to develop.
- The first creation is dormant and the others are all extinct.
- The fact that milk was being imported was reflective of agricultural land lying dormant.
- The entire line is now dormant.
- Also, endospores are dormant, while new "Epulopiscium" cells are active.