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    Although her illness was currently dormant, the doctors advised regular checkups to watch for any changes.
    dormant = inactive but still present
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    For the first time ever, the kitchen and Mama were dormant.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    When Franz met McCandless, his long-dormant paternal impulses were kindled anew.  (source)
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    The hunger, always there, had been somewhat controlled and dormant when there was nothing to eat but with the eggs came the scream to eat.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    ...how to come back to life after my long undersnow dormancy.  (source)
    dormancy = long-term inactivity
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    The few survivors entered a semidormant cyst-hibernation to emerge in six years as small (about three meters long) sandworms.†  (source)
    semidormant = partially not active or growing
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semidormant means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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    A long-dormant voice says, Dad did.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    Between my mother and myself the abuse was slow and tedious, requiring long periods of dormancy, living in the blood like hepatitis.  (source)
    dormancy = inactivity
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    Some of the seeds lie dormant in the desiccated earth for decades, waiting, and when the water finally comes home again, they burst through the soil, unfolding their faces.  (source)
    dormant = inactive
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    It wasn't an accusing, protesting silence as much as a sort of estivation, a dormancy, the psychological equivalent of what lungfish do to get themselves through the dry season, except that in Estha's case the dry season looked as though it would last forever.†  (source)
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    Hopefully they'll go dormant for a while.  (source)
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    With John gone so much, a part of me says that Rose Red has nothing to fight for, that her dormancy results from the lack of a need to protect me; but if Sukeena is right-and who am I to challenge her understanding of such matters?†  (source)
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    Like the monster it had once commanded, it might have lain dormant there for centuries.  (source)
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