How to use "dormant" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "dormant" in popular movie and book plots

  • However, Adventure's bumbling awakens a dormant dragon.  - The Pagemaster
  • When he tries to restore the local security grid, he awakens the Xenomorphs that had lain dormant following their conquest of the POC.  - Aliens versus Predator 2
  • Aboard the plane, one of the thieves manages to open the coffin, revealing the dormant body of Count Dracula.  - Dracula 2000
  • In the resultant fighting, Mount Hood is bombed and the dormant volcano starts to erupt again.  - The Lathe of Heaven
  • If a human mind has a copy of Resuna, it may remain dormant until a human speaks the trigger phrase let overwrite, let override.  - The Sky So Big and Black
  • Sensing a conspiracy, she awakens a dormant powerful vampire elder, Viktor, who has been hibernating.  - Underworld (2003 film)
  • Ethan's team learn that Chimera has a 20-hour dormant period before it causes death by mass destruction of the victim's red blood cells.  - Mission: Impossible 2
  • Witchcraft is a genetic trait, dormant within a number of individuals within the human population.  - Witch Hunter Robin
  • After traveling through a network of caves and a dormant volcano, the team reaches the borders of Atlantis.  - Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • Upon waking up, Norman discovers that he had lain dormant for five thousand years.  - The Man Who Awoke
  • Carrie gradually discovers her dormant telekinetic powers which she had apparently possessed since birth.  - Carrie (novel)
  • The asteroid's most prominent features are three minuscule volcanoes (two active, and one dormant or extinct) as well as a variety of plants.  - The Little Prince
  • She leaves to tell Spencer what happened, and Benjamin takes Kaeli to the Alive Forest to talk to the dormant tree spirit.  - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
  • Dave Bowman and HAL lie dormant in this Monolith.  - 2010: Odyssey Two
  • Lying dormant in the future, Robo is found and repaired by Lucca, and joins the group out of gratitude.  - Chrono Trigger
  • The expedition's facility, High Lab, is gradually compromised by a dormant superintelligence within the archive later known as the Blight.  - A Fire Upon the Deep
  • The showman Charles Dormant and wife Consuelo decide to send their daughter Sharon, familiarly known as "Skippy," to boarding school.  - Three Cheers for Love

Meaning of "dormant" in English

  • inactive but capable of becoming active
  • (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
  • in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
    Examples
    - a hibernating bear
    - torpid frogs
  • lying with head on paws as if sleeping

Meaning of "dormant" in Hindi

  • सुशुप्त ( Sushupt)
  • सुस्त ( Sust)
  • सुशुप्त/सुस्त
  • निष्क्रिय ( Nishkriy)
  • सुप्त ( Supt)
  • प्रसुप्त ( Prasupt)
  • सुषुप्त ( Sushupt)
  • कुंठित ( Kunthit)

Synonyms of "dormant"

  • sleeping
  • hibernating
  • torpid
  • inactive

Antonyms of "dormant"

  • active

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