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Definition
unmoving, inactive, or unable to move
or:
slow, lethargic, or without interest
or (in chemistry/medicine):
chemically inactive (not having an effect)
or:
slow, lethargic, or without interest
or (in chemistry/medicine):
chemically inactive (not having an effect)
- The unfortunate girl felt herself so utterly abandoned by God and men, that her head fell upon her breast like an inert thing which has no power in itself.2.8.2 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 2 — Continuation of the Crown.... (47% in)
- It is certain that if the soul had not already quitted this inert, sluggish, lethargic body, it had at least retreated and concealed itself in depths whither the perceptions of the exterior organs no longer penetrated.1.6.3 — Vol 1 Bk 6 Chpt 3 — History of a Leavened Cake of Maize (88% in)
There are no more uses of "inert" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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