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What does dormant mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dormant? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
  2. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
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Poa bulbosa becomes dormant quite early in the growth season, well before the end of the rainy period.
But although symptoms can lie dormant for 70 years, on average incurable mesothelioma takes between 10 and 30 years to develop.
Ticks that can lay dormant for decade underground and, catching a whiff of your carbon dioxide, emerge to suck you dry.
Initial construction of the roadbed was begun in November when the quarries were dormant, thus allowing quarrymen to assist.
But it is estimated that it could be responsible for 10,000 deaths a year by 2020, as symptoms lie dormant for decades.
This happens because the virus lies dormant in local nerves until reactivated by factors such as stress or menstruation.

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