inert
/ɪnˈɝt/ noun C2- A substance that does not react chemically.
Plural inerts
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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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