dormant
/ˈdoɹmənt/ adjective C1- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. · Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.· The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
- In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant. · a lion dormant
- Leaning.
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He was telling me this morning that, tired of letting his property lie dormant in Italy, which is a dead nation, he wished to find a method, either in France or England, of multiplying his millions, but remember, that though I place great confidence in Busoni, I am not responsible for this.”
Conversely, mindlessly following turn-by-turn electronic instructions leaves these critical spatial networks largely dormant and woefully underutilized over time.
Choosing to navigate by the contours of the land rather than a synthetic voice might just reawaken our dormant spatial instincts.
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