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- Inert bodies on stretchers lay abandoned under emergency lighting in doorways, with tubes and bags of blood held aloft in a shifting forest of metal poles and stands.†
p. 126.1
- Now they lay inert on the couches and chairs and beds, completely cut off from external contact.†
p. 221.1
- We always kept a dim nightlight on out in the hallway, and I kept my headlamp off as I picked my way through the inert bodies under piles of blankets.†
p. 259.9
- I'd sat and cried on the cellar steps, talking to Tony's inert corpse, thanking him for trying to protect us.†
p. 287.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(inert) unmoving, inactive, or unable to move
or:
slow, lethargic, or without interest
or (in chemistry/medicine):
chemically inactive (not having an effect) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)