Both Uses
dormant
in
A Bend in the Road
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- Instead they had simply gone dormant, like a bear hibernating in the winter, feeding on its own tissue, waiting for the season yet to come.†
Chpt 28 *dormant = not active or growing, but capable of doing so in the future
- The rain over the previous couple of days had melted all the snow; where I once saw lawns blanketed in white, I now saw the familiar brown of centipede grass, gone dormant over the winter.†
Chpt 36
Definitions:
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(1)
(dormant) not active or growing, but capable of doing so in the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)