inanimate
/ɪnˈænɪmət/ adjective B2- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
- Not animate.
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The young man raised the arm, which fell back by its own weight, perfectly inanimate and helpless.
Valentine had solved the problem, and was able easily to understand his thoughts, and to convey her own in return, and, through her untiring and devoted assiduity, it was seldom that, in the ordinary transactions of every-day life, she failed to anticipate the wishes of the living, thinking mind, or the wants of the almost inanimate body.
Noirtier’s eye still retained its inanimate expression.
Valentine was so pale, so cold, so inanimate that without listening to what was said to them they were seized with the fear which pervaded that house, and they flew into the passage crying for help.
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