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Definition of Lie dormant
1. Verb. Be inactive, as if asleep. "His work lay dormant for many years"
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Literary usage of Lie dormant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... which lie dormant until the first rains rouse them from their lethargy. ...
and in the tropics millipedes lie dormant during seasons of drought. ..."
2. Home, Health and Success: Or, A Guide to a Happy Home and a Successful Life by Thomas Nelson (1908)
"It Must be Held Sacred and Pure—The Sexual Nature Should lie dormant in the
Unmarried—The Object of Sexual Relationship—Love, and not Lust, Should Control ..."
3. Transactions by Manchester Association of Engineers (1892)
"But if kinetic it could not lie dormant in the system, and if potential, whence
did it originate ? Again, if not a form of energy, the question arises, ..."
4. Report of the Vice Commission of Lexington, Kentucky by Lexington (Ky.). Vice Commission, Robert Kinloch Massie (1915)
"... many however survive and bear the evidence of the disease throughout life;
again, it may lie dormant in its victim until the age of 20 or more and then ..."
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