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dormant
1. adj. Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
2. adj. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
a lion dormant
3. adj. (architecture) Leaning.
4. n. (architecture) A crossbeam or joist.

Example Sentences

Right now, my genius is dormant, waiting for that crucial moment when it will spill out all over me.  Like oxygenating the areas which are dormant.  Seeds seem to have the ability to lie dormant deep in the ground for years and suddenly, given the right conditions, germinate.

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