inert
/ɪnˈɝt/ verb C2- To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.
He/she/it inerts · Past inerted · Past participle inerted · -ing form inerting
Verb forms
- Base form
- inert
- He/she/it
- inerts
- Past
- inerted
- Past participle
- inerted
- -ing form
- inerting
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And yet they are inert.
She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that.
Edmond shuddered when he heard the painful efforts which the old man made to drag himself along; his leg was inert, and he could no longer make use of one arm.
I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.
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